A power-law upper bound on the correlations in the 2D random field Ising model (Q2008975)

The Imry-Ma phenomenon in a 2D system is one where any first-order transition is rounded off with the introduction of arbitrarily weak static or quenched, disorder in the parameter which is conjugate to the corresponding extensive quantity. In this paper, the authors present estimates of this effect, strengthening old results by Aizenmann and Wehr and others. The main result is that in the 2D case at any temperature \(T\geq 0\), the effect on the local quenched magnetization of the boundary conditions at distance \(\ell\) decays by at least a power law \(\dfrac{1}{\ell^\gamma}\) (Theorem 1.1).