Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-condensed-matter-physics-major-option-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2019/5/c/solution

Treat the ordered spins as classical vectors of fixed length , as in the requested mean-field energy. Each iron site has six nearest neighbors: four in the plane and two along . All are antiparallel in the collinear state. Each exchange bond contributes and is counted only once, giving per spin.
The easy-axis term contributes because . The cross product of two collinear spins is zero, so the term proportional to contributes nothing. Therefore

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