Scaling limit and cube-root fluctuations in SOS surfaces above a wall

DOI10.4171/JEMS/606zbMATH Open1344.60091arXiv1302.6941MaRDI QIDQ280288FDOQ280288

Allan Sly, Fabio Martinelli, Eyal Lubetzky, Pietro Caputo, Fabio Lucio Toninelli

Publication date: 9 May 2016

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Consider the classical $(2+1)$-dimensional Solid-On-Solid model above a hard wall on an $LimesL$ box of $$. The model describes a crystal surface by assigning a non-negative integer height $et{a}_x$ to each site $x$ in the box and 0 heights to its boundary. The probability of a surface configuration $eta$ is proportional to $$, where $$ is the inverse-temperature and $mathcalH(eta)$ sums the absolute values of height differences between neighboring sites. We give a full description of the shape of the SOS surface for low enough temperatures. First we show that with high probability the height of almost all sites is concentrated on two levels, $$ and $H(L)-1$. Moreover, for most values of $L$ the height is concentrated on the single value $H(L)$. Next, we study the ensemble of level lines corresponding to the heights $(H(L),H(L)-1,\mathrm{...})$. We prove that w.h.p. there is a unique macroscopic level line for each height. Furthermore, when taking a diverging sequence of system sizes $L_k$, the rescaled macroscopic level line at height $H(L_k)-n$ has a limiting shape if the fractional parts of $$ converge to a noncritical value. The scaling limit is an explicit convex subset of the unit square $Q$ and its boundary has a flat component on the boundary of $Q$. Finally, the highest macroscopic level line has $L_k^{1/3+o(1)}$ fluctuations along the flat part of the boundary of its limiting shape.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6941

zbMATH Keywords

scaling limitsloop ensemblesrandom surface modelssolid-on-solid model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

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