Diffusive scaling of the spectral gap for the dilute Ising lattice-gas dynamics below the percolation threshold (Q5952004)

We consider a conservative stochastic lattice-gas dynamics reversible with respect to the canonical Gibbs measure of the bond dilute Ising model on \(\mathbb Z^d\) at inverse temperature \(\beta\). When the bond dilution density \(p\) is below the percolation threshold we prove that for any particle density and any \(\beta\), with probability one, the spectral gap of the generator of the dyamics in a box of side \(L\) centered at the origin scales like \(L^{-2}\). Such an estimate is then used to prove a decay to equilibrium for local functions of the form \({1\over t^{\alpha -\epsilon}}\) where \(k\) is positive and arbitrarily small and \(f = \frac 12\) for \(d = 1\), \(\alpha=1\) for \(d\geq2\). In particular our result shows that, contrary to what happes for the Glauber dynamics, there is no dynamical phase transition when \(\beta\) crosses the critical value \(\beta_c\) of the pure system.