Forbidden gap argument for phase transitions proved by means of chessboard estimates

DOI10.1007/S00220-006-1523-XzbMATH Open1107.82018arXivmath-ph/0505011OpenAlexW1990757275MaRDI QIDQ865064FDOQ865064

Authors: M. Biskup, Roman Kotecký 

Publication date: 13 February 2007

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Chessboard estimates are one of the standard tools for proving phase coexistence in spin systems of physical interest. In this note we show that the method not only produces a point in the phase diagram where more than one Gibbs states coexist, but that it can also be used to rule out the existence of shift-ergodic states that differ significantly from those proved to exist. For models depending on a parameter (say, the temperature), this shows that the values of the conjugate thermodynamic quantity (the energy) inside the "transitional gap" are forbidden in all shift-ergodic Gibbs states. We point out several models where our result provides useful additional information concerning the set of possible thermodynamic equilibria.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0505011

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zbMATH Keywords

phase diagramGibbs stateslattice spin systemchessboard estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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