Exponential decay for the near-critical scaling limit of the planar Ising model

TL;DR

This paper proves exponential decay of correlations in the near-critical planar Ising model, establishing a precise relation between external magnetic field and correlation length, and introduces measure ensembles as a novel analytical tool.

Contribution

It demonstrates exponential decay in the near-critical scaling limit of the Ising model and applies measure ensembles, a new approach in this context.

Findings

Exponential decay of the two-point function with a rate independent of lattice spacing

Mass in the Euclidean field scales as h^{8/15} with a precise constant

First application of measure ensembles in near-critical scaling limit analysis

Abstract

We consider the Ising model at its critical temperature with external magnetic field $ha^{15/8}$ on the square lattice with lattice spacing $a$. We show that the truncated two-point function in this model decays exponentially with a rate independent of $a$. As a consequence, we show exponential decay in the near-critical scaling limit Euclidean magnetization field. For the lattice model with $a=1$, the mass (inverse correlation length) is of order $h^{8/15}$ as $h\downarrow 0$; for the Euclidean field, it equals exactly $Ch^{8/15}$ for some $C$. Although there has been much progress in the study of critical scaling limits, results on near-critical models are far fewer due to the lack of conformal invariance away from the critical point. Our arguments combine lattice and continuum FK representations, including coupled conformal loop and measure ensembles, showing that such ensembles can be useful even in the study of near-critical scaling limits. Thus we provide the first substantial application of measure ensembles.