Spin systems with long range interactions
This review-type paper focuses on a model of lattice spin systems with long range interactions, the so called Kac-Ising models. They are short-range models of Ising spins for which the range can be arbitrarily long or even infinite in some suitable limit. It is an intermediate model between the standard n.n. Ising model (interaction of range 1 and strength of order 1) and the corresponding mean-field model, the Curie-Weiss model, for which the range is infinite and the strength is small of order \(N^{-1}\) for a system of \(N\) spins, i.e. with a total strength also equal to 1. For a given parameter \(\gamma \in (0,1)\), one considers the coupling \(J_{\gamma}=\gamma^d J(\gamma | i-j| )\) where \(J\) is a smooth normalized function with compact support. The case \(\gamma=1\) corresponds to the n.n. case while an appropriate limit \(\gamma \rightarrow 0\), called the Kac limit, leads to the mean-field case. Mean-field models have been introduced for their simplicity to describe phase transition but they are also known to have bad thermodynamics, and that e.g. equivalence of ensemble fails for thermodynamic functions. In order to provide the validity of the van der Waals theory, this model has been introduced by Kac, Uhlenbeck and Hemmer in the 1960s to get, when one takes the limit \(\gamma\) goes to 0 after the thermodynamic limit, an approximation of the mean-field model by the corresponding Kac model with \(\gamma\) arbitrary small. According to the author, when one considers mean field properties, one should always think of a Kac potential approximant with \(\gamma\) maybe very small but positive, thus with a finite range interaction. This statement has been proved in the famous Lebowitz-Penrose construction which reestablish equivalence of ensembles in the Kac limit. The author describes first the involved models and the Lebowitz-Penrose construction and gives a proof of the corresponding theorem. Later on, phase transition has been proved for Kac models, with a proof based on the Peierls argument for the original Ising model. This review paper recalls this famous argument and describes the corresponding low temperature expansion for Kac models. The last part is devoted to Glauber dynamics of Kac models and to the dynamics of the interface. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1024.00032].
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- Large-deviation principle for one-dimensional vector spin models with Kac potentials
- Fast approximate simulation of finite long-range spin systems
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1190411 (Why is no real title available?)
- SPIN SYSTEMS WITH LONG-RANGE INTERACTIONS
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