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bhaubhau
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I was trying to understand why for every spin configuration of a ferromagnetic system, there exists a corresponding isoenergetic state of an antiferromagnetic system.
Can I treat an antiferromagnetically coupled 1-D ising model as a combination of two interpenetrating sublattices which are ferromagnetically coupled. If so, then how do I visualise this in 2 and 3 dimensions and extend the argument to d-dimensions?
Basnically, how are these two systems (ferromagetically and antiferromagnetically correlated)
thermodynamically equivalent?
P.S: obviously, in the absence of a magnetic field.
Can I treat an antiferromagnetically coupled 1-D ising model as a combination of two interpenetrating sublattices which are ferromagnetically coupled. If so, then how do I visualise this in 2 and 3 dimensions and extend the argument to d-dimensions?
Basnically, how are these two systems (ferromagetically and antiferromagnetically correlated)
thermodynamically equivalent?
P.S: obviously, in the absence of a magnetic field.