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Abstract
We compare two widespread formulations of the mean-field approximation based on minimizing an appropriately built mean-field free energy. We use the example of the anti-ferromagnetic Ising model to show that one of these formulations does not guarantee the existence of an underlying variational principle. This results in a severe failure where straightforward minimization of the corresponding mean-field free energy leads to incorrect results.
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