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The Ising model ferromagnet can be transformed to an antiferromagnet by changing J to −J (J > 0) in the configurational energy expression (2.63). The analysis of the one-dimensional case in Chap. 2 remains valid, and replacing J by −J the zero-field correlation relation (2.88) becomes
which is the same as in the ferromagnet for even k, but is reversed in sign for odd k. At low temperatures the regions of local order are blocks of alternate spins, and nearest-neighbour pairs of parallel spins are the local fluctuations which form the boundaries between these regions. As will be shown in Sect. 4.2, the equilibrium state at H = 0 for the antiferromagnet can be obtained from that of the ferromagnet by reversing every other spin, (see Fig. 4.1). The values of U, F, and hence S, at H = 0 are unaltered by the change J → −J, as can be seen from (2.81) and (2.82). The zero-field heat capacity given by (2.83) is also unaffected.
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Lavis, D.A., Bell, G.M. (1999). Antiferromagnets and Other Magnetic Systems. In: Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03843-7_4
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