The real space renormalization group treatment of the FCSC Ising lattice

Abstract

A large-scale renormalization group study of the Ising model for the square, honeycomb, triangular, simple cubic, and body-centered (BC) cubic lattices has been performed recently by us. We complement those studies with the structurally more complicated face-centered cubic lattice Ising model. The results obtained from the real space renormalization group (RSRG) treatment of the face-centered simple cubic (FCSC) Ising lattice have been presented in this work. The difficulty due to its non-self-dual decimation transformation property and high numbers of nearest neighbors in the treatment is overcome with some relevant approximations. The approximation is based on keeping only the pairwise interactions in the decimated lattice which is apparently in the form of a tetragonal structure. Within this approximation, the renormalized coupling strength is related to the coupling constant of the original lattice. The critical coupling strength for the decimated tetragonal structure is calculated as 0.0905.