Two-Dimensional Ising Model as a Soluble Problem of Many Fermions

The two-dimensional Ising model for a system of interacting spins (or for the ordering of an AB alloy) on a square lattice is one of the very few nontrivial many-body problems that is exactly soluble and shows a phase transition. Although the exact solution in the absence of an external magnetic field was first given almost twenty years ago in a famous paper by Onsager1 using the theory of Lie algebras, the flow of papers on both approximate and exact methods has remained strong to this day.2 One reason for this has been the interest in testing approximate methods on an exactly soluble problem. A second reason, no doubt, has been the considerable formidability of the Onsager method. The simplification achieved by Bruria Kaufman3 using the theory of spinor representations has diminished, but not removed, the reputation of the Onsager approach for incomprehensibility, while the subsequent application of this method by Yang4 to the calculation of the spontaneous magnetization has, if anything, helped to restore this reputation.

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