Random currents expansion of the Ising model (Q1620883)

Summary: Critical behavior at an order/disorder phase transition has been a central object of interest in statistical physics. In the past century, techniques borrowed from many different fields of mathematics (Algebra, Combinatorics, Probability, Complex Analysis, Spectral Theory, etc) have contributed to a more and more elaborate description of the possible critical behaviors for a large variety of models. The Ising model is maybe one of the most striking success of this cross-fertilization, for this model of ferromagnetism is now very well understood both physically and mathematically. In this article, we review an approach, initiated in [\textit{M. Aizenman}, Commun. Math. Phys. 86, 1--48 (1982; Zbl 0533.58034); \textit{R. B. Griffiths} et al., ``Concavity of magnetization of an Ising ferromagnet in a positive external field'', J. Math. Phys. 11, 790--795 (1970)] and based on the notion of random currents, enabling a deep study of the model. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1396.00017].