Mixing times for the mean-field Blume-Capel model via aggregate path coupling

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0286-8MaRDI QIDQ648129zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mathew Titus, Yevgeniy Kovchegov, Peter T. Otto

Publication date 22 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3406

zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsmixing timesGlauber dynamicspath couplingBlume-Capel modelaggregate path coupling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the relationship between the mixing times of the Glauber dynamics of a statistical mechanical system with its thermodynamic equilibrium structure. For this we consider the mean-field Blume-Capel model, one of the simplest statistical mechanical models that exhibits the following intricate phase transition structure: within a two dimensional parameter space there exists a curve at which the model undergoes a second-order, continuous phase transition, a curve where the model undergoes a first-order, discontinuous phase transition, and a tricritical point which separates the two curves. We determine the interface between the regions of slow and rapid mixing. In order to completely determine the region of rapid mixing, we employ a novel extension of the path coupling method, successfully proving rapid mixing even in the absence of contraction between neighboring states.

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