Ising Model

The original paper

Ernst Ising, “Beitrag zur Theorie des Ferromagnetismus”, Z. Physik 31, 253–258 (1925).

Transfer matrix

Lars Onsager, “Crystal Statistics. I. A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder Transition”, Phys. Rev. 65, 117 (1944).
Bruria Kaufman, “Crystal Statistics. II. Partition Function Evaluated by Spinor Analysis”, Phys. Rev. 76, 1232 (1949).
Bruria Kaufman and Lars Onsager, “Crystal Statistics. III. Short-Range Order in a Binary Ising Lattice”, Phys. Rev. 76, 1244 (1949).

E. W. Montroll, R. B. Potts, and J. C. Ward, “Correlations and Spontaneous Magnetization of the Two‐Dimensional Ising Model”, J. Math, Phys. 4, 308 (1963).

T. D. SCHULTZ, D. C. MATTIS, and E. H. LIEB, “Two-Dimensional Ising Model as a Soluble Problem of Many Fermions”, Rev. Mod. Phys. 36, 856 (1964).

Arthur E. Ferdinand and Michael E. Fisher, “Bounded and Inhomogeneous Ising Models. I. Specific-Heat Anomaly of a Finite Lattice”, Phys. Rev. 185, 832 (1969).
Helen Au-Yang and Michael E. Fisher, “Bounded and inhomogeneous Ising models. II. Specific-heat scaling function for a strip”, Phys. Rev. B 11, 3469 (1975).
Helen Au-Yang, Michael E. Fisher, and A. E. Ferdinand, “Bounded and inhomogeneous Ising models. III. Regularly spaced point defects”, Phys. Rev. B 13, 1238 (1976).