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Ising model is defined as lattice model with interactions only between nearest sites if lattice.

If we deform Ising model, include non-nearest interactions or interactions between more than two spins, we will stay in same universallity class.. At least naively...

Also, according to Landau, properties nearly critical points are unlikely determined by symmetry and dimension of space.

How one must deform Ising model to obtain another universality class?

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I doubt there is a completely exhaustive answer to your question, but one way to change the universality class of the Ising model is to introduce long-range interactions. In particular, consider adding a term $$ H = H_{\mathrm{ising}} - J \sum_{i \neq j} \frac{\sigma_i \sigma_j}{|\mathbf{r}_i - \mathbf{r}_j|^{\alpha}}, $$ where $H_{\mathrm{ising}}$ is the usual nearest-neighbor Ising model, and $\sigma_i = \pm1$ are the Ising variables. Let's just consider the model on a $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice, and assume that $\alpha>d$ so that the total energy is extensive. It is well known that if $\alpha$ is large enough, the system stays in the usual Ising universality class. However, if $$ \alpha < 2 + d - \eta_{\mathrm{SR}}, $$ then the transition is instead described by a different, "long-range Ising" universality class (actually a family of universality classes whose critical exponents vary continuously with $\alpha$). Here $\eta_{\mathrm{SR}}$ is the anomalous dimension of the operator $\sigma$ in the short-range critical Ising model, $$ \langle\sigma_i \sigma_j \rangle \propto \frac{1}{|\mathbf{r}_i - \mathbf{r}_j|^{d - 2 + \eta_{\mathrm{SR}}}} $$ for $|\mathbf{r}_i - \mathbf{r}_j| \gg 1$. The original references for this are Fisher, Ma, Nickel, PRL 29, 917, (1972), Sak, PRB 8, 281 (1973) and Sak, PRB 15, 4344 (1977).

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  • $\begingroup$ But symmetry of modified Hamiltonian remains $Z_2$, right? Why this change universality class? $\endgroup$
    – Nikita
    Mar 31, 2020 at 0:44
  • $\begingroup$ Also it looks like statements about $d=2+\varepsilon$ $\endgroup$
    – Nikita
    Mar 31, 2020 at 0:46
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    $\begingroup$ @Nikita Symmetry is not the only thing which determines the universality class of a transition. I don't understand your second comment. $\endgroup$ Mar 31, 2020 at 1:11
  • $\begingroup$ In articles authors use $d=2+\varepsilon$, as I understand. So it is not correct to compare this models with Ising. Do you agree? $\endgroup$
    – Nikita
    Mar 31, 2020 at 1:14
  • $\begingroup$ The authors use different expansions (and I actually left out an important early reference, I will edit it in). The statement I gave in my answer is referred to as a conjecture in the 1977 Sak paper, but I think it is fairly uncontroversial today - simply look at the scaling dimension of the additional term I am adding to the Hamiltonian. See also the more recent work: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.241601 and iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1751-8121/aa8099 $\endgroup$ Mar 31, 2020 at 1:22

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