On the probability of staying above a wall for the (2+1)-dimensional SOS model at low temperature

DOI10.1007/S00440-015-0658-0MaRDI QIDQ892167zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabio Martinelli, Pietro Caputo, Fabio Lucio Toninelli

Publication date 18 November 2015

Published in Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1206

zbMATH Keywords

entropic repulsionlarge deviationsloop ensemblesrandom surface modelsSOS model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

Abstract: We obtain sharp asymptotics for the probability that the (2+1)-dimensional discrete SOS interface at low temperature is positive in a large region. For a square region $Lambda$, both under the infinite volume measure and under the measure with zero boundary conditions around $Lambda$, this probability turns out to behave like $$, with $$ the surface tension at zero tilt, also called step free energy, and $L$ the box side. This behavior is qualitatively different from the one found for continuous height massless gradient interface models.

Review text

Let \(\mathbb{P}_\Lambda\) be the Gibbs measure of the \((2+1)\)-dimensional SOS model on a box \(\Lambda\subset \mathbb{Z}^2\) with zero boundary condition. The configurations are discrete height functions \(\eta:\Lambda\mapsto \mathbb{Z}\) with \(\eta(x)=0\) for \(x\notin\Lambda\). The probability measure is given by \[ \mathbb{P}(\eta)=\frac{\exp(-\beta\sum_{|x-y|=1}|\eta(x)-\eta(y)|)}{Z_\Lambda}, \] where \(\beta>0\) is the inverse temperature and \(Z_\Lambda\) is the partition function. This paper mostly considers the case \(\Lambda=\Lambda_L=[-L, L]^2\cap\mathbb{Z}^2\), the square of sidelenght \(2L\) in \(\mathbb{Z}^2\) centered at the origin. It is well known that if \(\beta\) is large enough, the limit of \(\mathbb{P}_{\Lambda_L}\) as \(L\to\infty\) exists and is denoted by \(\mathbb{P}\). In this paper, the authors show that there exists \(\beta_0>0\) such that for all \(\beta\geq \beta_0\), \[ \lim_{L\to\infty}\frac 1{L\log L}\log\mathbb{P}_{\Lambda_L}(\eta(x)\geq 0 \text{ for every } x\in \Lambda_L)=-2\tau_\beta(0), \] where \(\tau_\beta(0)\) is the surface tension at zero tilt. (The same limit also holds if one replaces \(\mathbb{P}_{\Lambda_L}\) by \(\mathbb{P}\)). This behavior is qualitatively different from the one found for continuous height massless gradient interface models. The main ingredient of this paper is an iterative monotonicity argument based on the FKG properties the the SOS model.

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