Critical scaling to infinite temperature

Abstract

Three dimensional Ising model ferromagnets on different lattices with nearest neighbor interactions, and on simple cubic lattices with equivalent interactions out to further neighbors, are studied numerically. The susceptibility data for all these systems are analyzed using the critical Renormalization Group Theory formalism over the entire temperature range above Tc with an appropriate choice of scaling variable and scaling expressions. Representative experimental data on a metallic ferromagnet (Ni) and an elementary fluid (Xe) are interpreted in the same manner so as to estimate effective coordination numbers.