Hitting time asymptotics for hard-core interactions on grids

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DOI10.1007/S10955-015-1391-XzbMATH Open1335.82026arXiv1503.06757OpenAlexW3102258637WikidataQ59479939 ScholiaQ59479939MaRDI QIDQ266785FDOQ266785


Authors: Francesca Romana Nardi, Alessandro Zocca, Sem Borst Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 7 April 2016

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

Abstract: We consider the hard-core model with Metropolis transition probabilities on finite grid graphs and investigate the asymptotic behavior of the first hitting time between its two maximum-occupancy configurations in the low-temperature regime. In particular, we show how the order-of-magnitude of this first hitting time depends on the grid sizes and on the boundary conditions by means of a novel combinatorial method. Our analysis also proves the asymptotic exponentiality of the scaled hitting time and yields the mixing time of the process in the low-temperature limit as side-result. In order to derive these results, we extended the model-independent framework in [27] for first hitting times to allow for a more general initial state and target subset.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06757




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