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The Ising model on a Cayley tree is known to exhibit a phase transition of continuous order. In this paper we present a complete and quantitative analysis of the leading singular term in the free energy which is associated with this phase transition. We have been able to solve this problem by considering the distribution of zeros of the partition function. The most interesting new feature in our results is a contribution to the free energy which performs singular oscillations as the magnetic field approaches zero.
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Müller-Hartmann, E. Theory of the Ising model on a Cayley tree. Z Physik B 27, 161–168 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01313605
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01313605