VARIATIONAL AND MEAN-FIELD FORMULATIONS OF THE CLUSTER VARIATION METHOD OF THE PATH PROBABILITY METHOD

Authors
DUCASTELLE F
Citation
F. Ducastelle, VARIATIONAL AND MEAN-FIELD FORMULATIONS OF THE CLUSTER VARIATION METHOD OF THE PATH PROBABILITY METHOD, Progress of theoretical physics. Supplement, (115), 1994, pp. 255-272
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Progress of theoretical physics. Supplement → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759687
Issue
115
Year of publication
1994
Pages
255 - 272
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9687(1994):115<255:VAMFOT>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
It is shown that the path probability method of Kikuchi is a genuine m ean field treatment of the kinetic Ising model. The theory for the spi n-flip dynamics is presented in a general form, completely consistent with that already put forward for the cluster variation method.