Rigidity of interfaces in the Falicov-Kimball model

DOI10.1023/A:1018609126399zbMATH Open0973.82017arXivmath-ph/9804008MaRDI QIDQ1573809FDOQ1573809

Authors: Nilanjana Datta, Alain Messager, Bruno Nachtergaele 

Publication date: 9 August 2000

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the thermodynamic properties of interfaces in the three-dimensional Falicov Kimball model, which can be viewed as a primitive quantum lattice model of crystalline matter. In the strong coupling limit, the ionic subsystem of this model is governed by the Hamiltonian of an effective classical spin model whose leading part is the Ising Hamiltonian. We prove that the 100 interface in this model, at half-filling, is rigid, as in the three-dimensional Ising model. However, despite the above similarities with the Ising model, the thermodynamic properties of its 111 interface are very different. We prove that even though this interface is expected to be unstable for the Ising model, it is stable for the Falicov Kimball model at sufficiently low temperatures. This rigidity results from a phenomenon of "ground state selection" and is a consequence of the Fermi statistics of the electrons in the model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9804008

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zbMATH Keywords

Falicov-Kimball model100 and 111 interfacesground-state selectionrigidity of interfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24)

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