On cluster properties of classical ferromagnets in an external magnetic field

DOI10.1007/S10955-016-1556-2zbMATH Open1371.82018arXiv1512.05707OpenAlexW2340234728MaRDI QIDQ526593FDOQ526593

Pierre-François Rodriguez, Jürg Fröhlich

Publication date: 15 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Correlation functions of ferromagnetic spin systems satisfying a Lee-Yang property are studied. It is shown that, for classical systems in a non-vanishing uniform external magnetic field $h$, the connected correlation functions decay exponentially in the distances between the spins, i.e., the inverse correlation length ("mass gap"), $m(h)$, is strictly positive. Our proof is very short and transparent and is valid for complex values of the external magnetic field $h$, provided that $extRe,hot=0$. It implies a mean-field lower bound on $m(h)$, as $hsearrow0$, first established by Lebowitz and Penrose for the Ising model. Our arguments also apply to some quantum spin systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05707

zbMATH Keywords

clusterferromagnetexternal magnetic field.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of ferroelectrics (82D45)

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• MAGNETIC CLUSTER EXCITATIONS
• Exponential decay of transverse correlations for \(O(N)\) spin systems and related models
• The strong Gauss–Lucas theorem and analyticity of correlation functions via the Lee–Yang theorem
• Lee-Yang property and Gaussian multiplicative chaos
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