# Radiative corrections to the quark masses in the ferromagnetic Ising and Potts field theories

## TL;DR

This paper analyzes how weak magnetic fields induce mass corrections in the Ising and 3-state Potts field theories, refining form factor perturbation theory to understand confinement and bound states in these models.

## Contribution

It adapts and refines form factor perturbation theory for small magnetic fields to compute kink mass corrections in Ising and Potts models, revealing vanishing third-order corrections in the Ising case.

## Key findings

- Third-order correction to kink mass in Ising theory vanishes.
- Second-order correction in 3-state Potts theory estimated via form factor expansion.
- Refined perturbation approach improves understanding of confinement in these models.

## Abstract

We consider the Ising Field Theory (IFT), and the 3-state Potts Field Theory (PFT), which describe the scaling limits of the two- dimensional lattice q-state Potts model with q=2, and q=3, respectively. At zero magnetic field h=0, both field theories are integrable away from the critical point, have q degenerate vacua in the ferromagnetic phase, and q(q-1) particles of the same mass - the kinks interpolating between two different vacua. Application of a weak magnetic field induces confinement of kinks into bound states - the mesons (for q =2,3) consisting predominantly of two kinks, and baryons (for q=3), which are essentially the three-kink excitations. The kinks in the confinement regime are also called the quarks. We review and refine the Form Factor Perturbation Theory (FFPT), adapting it to the analysis of the confinement problem in the limit of small h, and apply it to calculate the corrections to the kink (quark) masses induced by the multi-kink fluctuations caused by the weak magnetic field. It is shown that the subleading third-order correction to the kink mass vanishes in the IFT. The leading second order correction to the kink mass in the 3-state PFT is estimated by truncation the infinite form factor expansion at the first term representing contribution of the two-kink fluctuations into the kink self energy.