On the short distance behavior of the critical Ising model perturbed by a magnetic field

Abstract

We apply here a recently developed approach to compute the short distance corrections to scaling for the correlators of all primary operators of the critical two-dimensional Ising model in a magnetic field. The essence of the method is the fact that if one deals with OPE Wilson coefficients instead of correlators, all-order IR safe formulas can be obtained for the perturbative expansion with respect to the magnetic field. This approach yields in a natural way the expected fractional powers of the magnetic field, which are clearly absent in the naive perturbative expression for correlators. The technique of the Mellin transform has been used to compute the IR behavior of the regularized integrals. As a corollary of our results, by comparing the existing numerical data for the lattice model we give an estimate of the vacuum expectation value of the energy operator of the continuous theory.