%0 Journal Article %T The high-temperature expansion of the classical Ising model with Sz2 term %A M.T. Thomaz %A O. Rojas %J Condensed Matter Physics %D 2012 %I Institute for Condensed Matter Physics %X We derive the high-temperature expansion of the Helmholtz free energy up to order ¦Â17 of the one-dimensional spin-S Ising model, with single-ion anisotropy term, in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field. We show that the values of some thermodynamical functions for the ferromagnetic models, in the presence of a weak magnetic field, are not small corrections to their values with h=0. This model with S=3 was applied by Kishine et al. [J.-i. Kishine et al., Phys. Rev. B, 2006, 74, 224419] to analyze experimental data of the single-chain magnet [Mn (saltmen)]2 [Ni(pac)2 (py)2] (PF6)2 for T<40 K. We show that for T<35 K the thermodynamic functions of the large-spin limit model are poor approximations to their analogous spin-3 functions. %K quantum statistical mechanics %K one-dimensional Ising model %K spin-S models %K large-spin limit Ising model %K single-chain magnets %U http://dx.doi.org/10.5488/CMP.15.13706