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Note that for the heat capacity the mean-field approximation gives qualitatively wrong result. As we can see, mean-field approximation predicts the abrupt jump for heat capacity, but in fact it has divergence
C (T )− T −θ−α (see Fig. 20.2).
Fig. 20.2. Realistic temperature dependence of ferromagnet heat capacity
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