Theorems on the Ising Model with General Spin and Phase Transition

Abstract

The theorem of Lee and Yang has been extended to the ferromagnetic Ising model with arbitrarily mixed spin values of Sj = ½, 1, and 32, including the case of equal spin values as a special one. Namely, it has been proved that the zeros of the partition function for the above Ising model with higher spin values lie on the unit circle in the fugacity plane (or complex magnetic-field plane). Expressions for general correlation functions in Ising ferromagnets with higher spin values have been derived in terms of the above generalized theorem. By the use of these expressions, the relations among the critical indices are discussed and the same results are obtained as those predicted by the scaling-law approach.