Solutions to the Problems 413

Replacing the above result in (7.45), we get the following expression for
the ordering (NBel) temperature in the weak coupling limit

(7.132)

For hypercubic lattices in d # 2, p(0) is finite. x(')(Q)can be estimated as in

(7.130), only the factor In ( t / c ) has to be replaced by p(0). The second term
gives the leading contribution

(7.133)

Hence
TN(d# 2) N t .exp (7.134)

Naturally, we must not forget that (7.132) and (7.134) are mean field results.
Mean field theory predicts finite TN for any dimension, but we have to remem-
ber that the Mermin-Wagner theorem excludes the breaking of continuous
symmetries at finite T for d = 1 and d = 2 .

Problem 7.6 Using the mean field assumption (nj+)= 1/2 + (-l)jm, ( n j ~=)
1/2 - (-1)jm for j = 1, 2 we are led to the mean field Hamiltonian

xMFA = X+ + XJ + u - 2 ~ 41( -- m2) (7.135)

where
zg= - t ( c ! , ~ 2 +~ ci,clo) - Umq(u)(Al, - ~ 2 ~ ) . (7.136)
The spectrum is u-independent: both Xt and XJhave the eigenvalues
A* = h / ~ . (7.137)

Proceeding as we did in Sec. 7.6, m can be obtained from minimizing

(7.138)

which yields
if U 5 2t
m= -4 if u 2 2t. (7.139)

The simplicity of the problem makes it easy to follow the alternative route:
writing down the self-consistency equation in the literal sense. In the basis