FK-Ising coupling applied to near-critical planar models

TL;DR

This paper provides a probabilistic analysis of the near-critical planar Ising model, establishing correlation length bounds, continuum limits, tail estimates, and magnetization behavior using FK methods.

Contribution

It introduces a purely probabilistic FK-based proof for correlation length bounds and extends FK-Ising coupling to the continuum limit, offering new insights into near-critical behavior.

Findings

Correlation length is at least proportional to h^{-8/15} as h approaches zero.

Established tail estimates for the largest cluster area in finite domains.

Proved the magnetization scales as h^{1/15} with a finite nonzero limit coefficient.

Abstract

We consider the Ising model at its critical temperature with external magnetic field $ha^{15/8}$ on $a\mathbb{Z}^2$. We give a purely probabilistic proof, using FK methods rather than reflection positivity, that for $a=1$, the correlation length is $\geq const.~h^{-8/15}$ as $h\downarrow0$. We extend to the $a\downarrow0$ continuum limit the FK-Ising coupling for all $h>0$, and obtain tail estimates for the largest renormalized cluster area in a finite domain as well as an upper bound with exponent $1/8$ for the one-arm event. Finally, we show that for $a=1$, the average magnetization, $\mathcal{M}(h)$, in $\mathbb{Z}^2$ satisfies $\mathcal{M}(h)/h^{1/15}\rightarrow$ some $B\in(0,\infty)$ as $h\downarrow0$.