The mean-field approximation replaces interactions with a self-consistent average field, neglecting correlated fluctuations around that average.
This is a use of mean-field theory, whose general framework also applies beyond a Landau free-energy model.
A self-consistency equation requires the average field assumed in a mean-field approximation to equal the expectation value calculated in that field.

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