Metastability in a four-spin Ising model

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/24/304MaRDI QIDQ4520597zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Lipowski, Des Johnston

Publication date 13 December 2000

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9812098

zbMATH Keywords

four-spin interaction Ising modelMonte Carlo simulationsstrong metastability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

Abstract: Using Monte Carlo simulations we show that the three-dimensional Ising model with four-spin (plaquette) interactions has some characteristic glassy features. The model dynamically generates diverging energy barriers, which give rise to slow dynamics at low temperature. Moreover, in a certain temperature range the model possesses a metastable (supercooled liquid) phase, which is presumably supported by certain entropy barriers. Although extremely strong, metastability in our model is only a finite-size effect and sufficiently large droplets of stable phase divert evolution of the system toward the stable phase. Thus, the glassy transitions in this model is a dynamic transition, preceded by a pronounced peak in the specific heat.

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