Taylor expansion of an Ising-like Hamiltonian

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Compute ##Z## and ##\log{Z}## of a set of ##N## two-level systems with total energy specified by the given Hamiltonian by Taylor expanding in powers of ##B## to first and second order.
Relevant Equations
$$H(\{n_i\}) = A\sum_{i=1}^{N}n_i + B\sum_{i=1}^{N-1}n_i n_{i+1}$$
##n_i = 0, 1## for ##i = 1, ..., N##
For the case when ##B=0## I get: $$Z = \sum_{n_i = 0,1} e^{-\beta H(\{n_i\})} = \sum_{n_i = 0,1} e^{-\beta A \sum_i^N n_i} =\prod_i^N \sum_{n_i = 0,1} e^{-\beta A n_i} = [1+e^{-\beta A}]^N$$
For non-zero ##B## to first order the best I can get is:
$$Z = \sum_{n_i = 0,1} e^{-\beta(A\sum_{i=1}^{N}n_i + B\sum_{i=1}^{N-1}n_i n_{i+1})} \approx \sum_{n_i = 0,1} e^{-\beta A\sum_{i=1}^{N}n_i} \left[1-\beta B \sum_{i=1}^{N-1}n_i n_{i+1} \right]$$ $$=
[1+e^{-\beta A}]^N - \beta B \sum_{n_i = 0,1} \sum_{i=1}^{N-1}n_i n_{i+1} e^{-\beta A\sum_{i=1}^{N}n_i}
$$ At this point I'm not sure how to evaluate the sums. Obiously, the only case when the sums yield a non-zero contribution is when ##n_i = n_{i+1} = 1##, but I don't know what ##e^{-\beta A\sum_{i=1}^{N}n_i}## evaluates to in that case. Should this just be ##-\beta B (N-1) e^{-\beta A N}##? That doesn't seem like the right answer since I can't really evaluate ##\log{Z}## then.
 
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It seems like it would be easier to turn the sums in the arguments of the exponential into products of exponentials like you did in the ##B=## case. So you get
$$
Z = \prod_i \sum_{n_i = 0,1} \exp\left( - \beta A n_i - \beta B n_i n_{i+1} \right) \approx \prod_i \sum_{n_i = 0,1} \exp\left( - \beta A n_i \right) \left[ 1 - \beta B n_i n_{i+1} \right].
$$
Now the sum over ##n_i = 0,1## is straightforward, and the same idea applies to second-order in ##B##.
 
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