Renormalization-Group Theory of the Heisenberg Model in d Dimensions

Abstract

The classical Heisenberg model has been solved in spatial d dimensins, exactly in d=1 and by the Migdal-Kadanoff approximation in d>1, by using a Fourier-Legendre expansion. The phase transition temperatures, the energy densities, and the specific heats are calculated in arbitrary dimension d. Fisher's exact result is recovered in d=1. The absence of an ordered phase, conventional or algebraic (in contrast to the XY model yielding an algebraically ordered phase), is recovered in d=2. A conventionally ordered phase occurs at d>2. This method opens the way to complex-system calculations with Heisenberg local degrees of freedom.