Metastability of Blume-Capel model with zero chemical potential and zero external field (Q820897)

In various statistical mechanical systems consisting of multiple locally stable states, a metastability is a phenomenon of first-order phase transition. In this paper, the author investigates the metastable behavior of the Blume-Capel model on two-dimensional (2D) lattices. This model is a ferromagnetic spin system that consists of three spin values, namely $-1$, $0$, and $+1$. The main aim of the paper is to study the metastable behavior of Metropolis-type Glauber dynamics associated with the Blume-Capel model with zero chemical potential and zero external field at very low temperatures. The author gives both large deviation-type and potential-theoretic results on the metastable behavior of the model.