Recent progress on random field Ising model

Speaker: Jian Ding

Date: Thu, Dec 9, 2021

Location: Online

Conference: Pacific Workshop on Probability and Statistical Physics

Subject: Mathematics

Class: Scientific

Abstract:

Random field Ising model is a canonical example to study the effect of disorder on long
range order. In 70’s, Imry-Ma predicted that in the presence of weak disorder, the long-range
order persists at low temperatures in three dimensions and above but disappears in two
dimensions. In this talk, I will review mathematical development surrounding this prediction,
and I will focus on recent progress on exponential decay (joint with Jiaming Xia) and on
correlation length in two dimensions (joint with Mateo Wirth). In addition, I will describe a
recent general inequality for the Ising model (joint with Jian Song and Rongfeng Sun) which
has implications for the random field Ising model.