Mixing time for the solid-on-solid model

DOI10.1214/11-AAP791zbMATH Open1283.60122arXiv1008.0125MaRDI QIDQ433908FDOQ433908

Alistair Sinclair, Fabio Martinelli

Publication date: 8 July 2012

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the mixing time of a natural local Markov chain (the Glauber dynamics) on configurations of the solid-on-solid model of statistical physics. This model has been proposed, among other things, as an idealization of the behavior of contours in the Ising model at low temperatures. Our main result is an upper bound on the mixing time of $O(n^{3.5})$, which is tight within a factor of $O(sqrtn)$. (The notation O~ hides factors that are logarithmic in n.) The proof, which in addition gives some insight into the actual evolution of the contours, requires the introduction of a number of novel analytical techniques that we conjecture will have other applications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0125

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain Monte CarlocensoringmonotonicityIsing modelmixing timesolid-on-solid modelGlauber dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

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