Long-Range Ising Models: Contours, Phase Transitions and Decaying Fields

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Authors Lucas Affonso, Rodrigo Bissacot, Eric Ossami Endo, Satoshi Handa

Publication date 13 May 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82Bxx)

Abstract: Inspired by Fr"{o}hlich-Spencer and subsequent authors who introduced the notion of contour for long-range systems, we provide a definition of contour and a direct proof for the phase transition for ferromagnetic long-range Ising models on $mathbb{Z}^d$, $dgeq2$. The argument, which is based on a multi-scale analysis, works for the sharp region $alpha>d$ and improves previous results obtained by Park for $alpha>3d+1$, and by Ginibre, Grossmann, and Ruelle for $alpha>d+1$, where $alpha$ is the power of the coupling constant. The key idea is to avoid a large number of small contours. As an application, we prove the persistence of the phase transition when we add a polynomial decaying magnetic field with power $delta>0$ as $h^{\ast }|x{|}^{-delta}$, where $h^{\ast }>0$. For $d<alpha<d+1$, the phase transition occurs when $delta>d-alpha$, and when $h^{\ast }$ is small enough over the critical line $delta=d-alpha$. For $alphageqd+1$, $delta>1$ it is enough to prove the phase transition, and for $delta=1$ we have to ask $h^{\ast }$ small. The natural conjecture is that this region is also sharp for the phase transition problem when we have a decaying field.

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