Phase transition of a one-dimensional Ising model with distance-dependent connections

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2007 Aug;76(2 Pt 1):021101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021101. Epub 2007 Aug 1.

Abstract

The critical behavior of the Ising model on a one-dimensional network, which has long-range connections at distances l>1 with the probability theta(l) approximately l(-m), is studied by using Monte Carlo simulations. Through analyzing the Ising model on networks with different m values, this paper discusses the impact of the global correlation, which decays with the increase of m, on the phase transition of the Ising model. Adding the analysis of the finite-size scaling of the order parameter [M], it is observed that in the whole range of 0<m<2, a finite-temperature transition exists, and the critical exponents show consistence with mean-field values, which indicates a mean-field nature of the phase transition.