Talk:Mean-field theory

title of the article
I disagree with the change in title. It is not that mean field is a compound adjective. In fact, field is a noun, and we discuss a mean field in the same sense as we discuss a statistical field -- a field with states at each point. In this case, the approximation in MFT reduces each point in the field to the mean of the generating process. I've changed this in text, but it would be nice for the title to change too, for consistency. Dalton.sakthi (talk) 21:54, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

I think it should be modified from "mean field theory" to "mean-field theory": the hyphen is needed in compound adjectives Baba Arouj (talk) 14:13, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

I have a suspicion that my prefactors are off by 2 or something in the Ising derivation. Damnit. Will check carefully at some point. Wilgamesh 16:16, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The reference to Bethe approximation at the end leads to the Bethe anasatz, that is something else, nothing to do with MFT.

The definition of z in the Ising model is unclear, can this be corrected? Pureferret (talk) 12:31, 17 April 2011 (UTC) I've added a definition of z, the coordination number after the equation in which it first appears. Antifrag — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.31.45 (talk) 14:58, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Merge discussion
I have discovered an orphaned article called Molecular field. This is just another name for mean field theory, so the two should be merged. RockMagnetist (talk) 18:30, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Math corrupted
Fyi. Last successful state was https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mean-field_theory&oldid=1095624711 17387349L8764 (talk) 17:15, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for notifying, it was only 2 edits ago so I manually undid the two edits. Change to citation tag in last edit will have to be redone. CyreJ (talk) 11:59, 27 July 2022 (UTC)