Metastability in the dilute Ising model

DOI10.1007/S00440-012-0474-8MaRDI QIDQ389284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thierry Bodineau, Marc Wouts, B. Graham

Publication date 20 January 2014

Published in Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0449

zbMATH Keywords

catalystsdilute Ising modelmagnetic hysteresismetastability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

Abstract: Consider Glauber dynamics for the Ising model on the hypercubic lattice with a positive magnetic field. Starting from the minus configuration, the system initially settles into a metastable state with negative magnetization. Slowly the system relaxes to a stable state with positive magnetization. Schonmann and Shlosman showed that in the two dimensional case the relaxation time is a simple function of the energy required to create a critical Wulff droplet. The dilute Ising model is obtained from the regular Ising model by deleting a fraction of the edges of the underlying graph. In this paper we show that even an arbitrarily small dilution can dramatically reduce the relaxation time. This is because of a catalyst effect---rare regions of high dilution speed up the transition from minus phase to plus phase.

Review text

The so-called dilute Ising model is derived from the standard Ising model by randomizing the Ising model edge coupling strengths. Here, one considers more especially local coupling strengths involving the Bernoulli (binomial) distribution. The main result of the paper can be summarized as follows: However the binomial parameter \(p\) is close to the unit, at low temperature, the dilute Ising model relaxes much more quickly than the corresponding undiluted Ising model.

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