Mixing time bounds for oriented kinetically constrained spin models

DOI10.1214/ECP.V18-2516zbMATH Open1329.60332arXiv1212.5425MaRDI QIDQ743029FDOQ743029

Authors: P. Chleboun, Fabio Martinelli 

Publication date: 22 September 2014

Published in: Electronic Communications in Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the mixing time of a class of oriented kinetically constrained spin models (KCMs) on a d-dimensional lattice of $n^d$ sites. A typical example is the North-East model, a 0-1 spin system on the two-dimensional integer lattice that evolves according to the following rule: whenever a site's southerly and westerly nearest neighbours have spin 0, with rate one it resets its own spin by tossing a p-coin, at all other times its spin remains frozen. Such models are very popular in statistical physics because, in spite of their simplicity, they display some of the key features of the dynamics of real glasses. We prove that the mixing time is O(n log n) whenever the relaxation time is O(1). Our study was motivated by the "shape" conjecture put forward by G. Kordzakhia and S.P. Lalley.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5425

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zbMATH Keywords

mixing timekinetically constrained spin modelsNorth-East model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J28) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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