Phase transitions in ferromagnetic Ising models with spatially dependent magnetic fields (Q2018331)

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Phase transitions in ferromagnetic Ising models with spatially dependent magnetic fields
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    Phase transitions in ferromagnetic Ising models with spatially dependent magnetic fields (English)
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    14 April 2015
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    For the ferromagnetic Ising model with an external field \(h(x)\) on \(\mathbb Z^d\), the authors prove that there is a phase transition if \(h(x)\) vanishes like \(|x|^{-\alpha}\), as \(|x|\to\infty\) with \(\alpha>1\) and the Gibbs measure is unique if \(\alpha<1\).
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    phase transitions
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    Ising model
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    magnetic fields
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