Abstract
In contrast to an infinite chain, the low-temperature expansion of a one-dimensional free-field Ising model has a strong dependence on boundary conditions. I derive an explicit formula for the leading term of the expansion both under open and periodic boundary conditions and show that they are related to different distributions of the partition function zeros on the complex temperature plane. In particular, when a periodic boundary condition is imposed, the leading coefficient of the expansion grows with increasing size of the chain, due to the zeros approaching the origin.
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