On the free energy within the mean-field approximation
R. Agra 1, F. van Wijland 1, E. Trizac 2 European Journal of Physics 27 (2006) 407-412 We compare two widespread formulations of the mean-field approximation, based on minimizing an appropriately built mean-field free energy. We use the example of the antiferromagnetic Ising model to show that one of these formulations does not guarantee the existence of an underlying variational principle. […]
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