FK-Ising coupling applied to near-critical planar models

Abstract

We consider the Ising model at its critical temperature with external magnetic field $h{a}^{15/8}$ on $a{\mathbb{Z}}^2$. We give a purely probabilistic proof, using FK methods rather than reflection positivity, that for $a=1$, the correlation length is $\ge const.h^{-8/15}$ as $h\downarrow 0$. We extend to the $a\downarrow 0$ continuum limit the FK-Ising coupling for all $h>0$, and obtain tail estimates for the largest renormalized cluster area in a finite domain as well as an upper bound with exponent $1/8$ for the one-arm event. Finally, we show that for $a=1$, the average magnetization, $\mathcal{M}(h)$, in ${\mathbb{Z}}^2$ satisfies $\mathcal{M}(h)/h^{1/15}\to$ some $B\in (0,\infty )$ as $h\downarrow 0$.

22 pages, revision after the referee's report