Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1999-02-03
Phys. Rev. B 60, 10134 (1999)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
13 REVTeX pages + 9 PostScript figures; deeper analysis of CVM results has been included; to be published in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.60.10134
Motivated by a recent proposal of a Bethe approximation for the triangular Ising antiferromagnet [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 56}, 8241 (1997)], which seems to predict a disordered phase at any temperature in zero field, we analyze in some detail several mean-field like approximations for this model, namely the Bethe approximation itself, the cluster variation method and the hard-spin mean-field theory. We show: (i) that the disordered phase predicted by the Bethe approximation is unphysical at low enough temperature because of a negative entropy; (ii) how the results of the cluster variation method (namely, zero temperature entropy and critical temperature of the spurious transition) converge to the exact ones for increasing cluster size; (iii) that it is possible to construct a cluster variation approximation which yields a disordered phase which is stable down to zero temperature; (iv) a few, so far unknown, zero temperature results (entropy and internal energy) of the hard-spin mean-field theory.
Pelizzola Alessandro
Pretti Marco
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