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We consider the nearest neighbor Ising model on the 2D square lattice and divide the lattice into 2 by 2 blocks. Each block is assigned one spin value (1 or −1) and these block spin values are kept fixed. We then impose the majority rule and look at the effect on the phase transition that was present in the original unconstrained spin system. We find that for the checkerboard block-spin configuration, Monte Carlo simulations show thatβ c is close to 1, which, compared to the original nearest neighbor Isingβ c = 0.44..., shows that the critical temperature has been reduced by more than one half. For none of the other 11 block-spin configurations that we have considered is there any indication of a phase transition in the constrained system of original spins.
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Ould-Lemrabott, M. Effect of the block-spin configuration on the location of βc in two-dimensional Ising modelsin two-dimensional Ising models. J Stat Phys 86, 1109–1115 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02183616
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