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1Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-845 11 Bratislava, Slovakia.
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We propose a tensor-network-based algorithm to study the classical Ising model on an infinitely large hyperbolic lattice with a regular 3D tesselation of identical dodecahedra. We reformulate the corner transfer matrix renormalization group (CTMRG) algorithm from 2D to 3D to reproduce the known results on the cubic lattice. We subsequently generalize the CTMRG to a hyperbolic lattice with dodecahedral cells, which is an infinite-dimensional lattice. We analyze the spontaneous magnetization, von Neumann entropy, and correlation length to find a continuous noncritical phase transition on the dodecahedral lattice. We estimate the phase-transition temperature and find the magnetic critical exponents β=0.4999 and δ=3.007, which confirm the mean-field universality class, in accord with predictions from Monte Carlo and high-temperature series expansions. The algorithm can be applied to arbitrary multistate spin models.
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