Differentiate the Helmholtz free energy at fixed couplings. With from solution, the entropy per spin isIt is particularly useful to writeAt , this is , so . For fixed , the first exponential dominates alone, giving . Hence the residual entropy isThe finite positive difference must be kept fixed in the second limit; taking it to zero first gives the other answer.
At high temperature, and , whenceAll configurations become equally probable because their Boltzmann factors tend to one. The two available states per spin, rather than the coupling values, determine this entropy.