Maximum and shape of interfaces in 3D Ising crystals

DOI10.1002/CPA.21960MaRDI QIDQ6312504arXivFDO

Authors Reza Gheissari, Eyal Lubetzky

Publication date 15 January 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/CPA.21960

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer science (68-XX) Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.MPmath.PR

Abstract: Dobrushin (1972) showed that the interface of a 3D Ising model with minus boundary conditions above the $xy$-plane and plus below is rigid (has $O(1)$-fluctuations) at every sufficiently low temperature. Since then, basic features of this interface -- such as the asymptotics of its maximum -- were only identified in more tractable random surface models that approximate the Ising interface at low temperatures, e.g., for the (2+1)D Solid-On-Solid model. Here we study the large deviations of the interface of the 3D Ising model in a cube of side-length $n$ with Dobrushin's boundary conditions, and in particular obtain a law of large numbers for $M_n$, its maximum: if the inverse-temperature $$ is large enough, then $$ as $noinfty$, in probability, where $$ is given by a large deviation rate in infinite volume. We further show that, on the large deviation event that the interface connects the origin to height $h$, it consists of a 1D spine that behaves like a random walk, in that it decomposes into a linear (in $h$) number of asymptotically-stationary weakly-dependent increments that have exponential tails. As the number $T$ of increments diverges, properties of the interface such as its surface area, volume, and the location of its tip, all obey CLTs with variances linear in $T$. These results generalize to every dimension $dgeq3$.

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