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Adv. Sta. Phy. Homework 2 Blume-Capel Model Li,Zimeng PB06203182<br />

Fig 2.1<br />

3. Mean Field Solution of the Blume-Capel model<br />

Consider<strong>in</strong>g simplified Blume-Capel model Hamiltonian<br />

, where<br />

is a factor when the sum of different sites is repeated twice.<br />

3.1 One Dimension Case<br />

The central idea of mean field theory is to approximate the <strong>in</strong>teract<strong>in</strong>g case<br />

by a simpler non<strong>in</strong>teract<strong>in</strong>g partition function.<br />

We first rewrite<br />

where

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