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A phase transition for the two-dimensional random field Ising/FK-Ising model

Probability 2025-07-01 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the total variation (TV) distance between the laws of the 2D Ising/FK-Ising model in a box of side-length NN with and without an i.i.d.\ Gaussian external field with variance ϵ2\epsilon^2. Letting the external field strength ϵ=ϵ(N)\epsilon = \epsilon(N) depend on the size of the box, we derive a phase transition for each model depending on the order of ϵ(N)\epsilon(N). For the random field Ising model, the critical order for ϵ\epsilon is N1N^{-1}. For the random field FK-Ising model, the critical order depends on the temperature regime: for T>TcT>T_c, T=TcT=T_c and T(0,Tc)T\in (0, T_c) the critical order for ϵ\epsilon is, respectively, N12N^{-\frac{1}{2}}, N1516N^{-\frac{15}{16}} and N1N^{-1}. In each case, as NN \to \infty the TV distance under consideration converges to 11 when ϵ\epsilon is above the respective critical order and converges to 00 when below.

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@article{arxiv.2503.16268,
  title  = {A phase transition for the two-dimensional random field Ising/FK-Ising model},
  author = {Chenxu Hao and Fenglin Huang and Aoteng Xia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16268},
  year   = {2025}
}
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