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High Temperature Expansions and Dynamical Systems
We develop a resummed high-temperature expansion for lattice spin systems
with long range interactions, in models where the free energy is not, in
general, analytic. We establish uniqueness of the Gibbs state and exponential
decay of the correlation functions. Then, we apply this expansion to the
Perron-Frobenius operator of weakly coupled map lattices.Comment: 33 pages, Latex; [email protected]; [email protected]
Phase Transition in the 1d Random Field ising model with long range interaction
We study the one dimensional Ising model with ferromagnetic, long range
interaction which decays as |i-j|^{-2+a}, 1/2< a<1, in the presence of an
external random filed. we assume that the random field is given by a collection
of independent identically distributed random variables, subgaussian with mean
zero. We show that for temperature and strength of the randomness (variance)
small enough with P=1 with respect to the distribution of the random fields
there are at least two distinct extremal Gibbs measures
Translation-invariance of two-dimensional Gibbsian point processes
The conservation of translation as a symmetry in two-dimensional systems with
interaction is a classical subject of statistical mechanics. Here we establish
such a result for Gibbsian particle systems with two-body interaction, where
the interesting cases of singular, hard-core and discontinuous interaction are
included. We start with the special case of pure hard core repulsion in order
to show how to treat hard cores in general.Comment: 44 pages, 6 figure
Neighborhood radius estimation in Variable-neighborhood Random Fields
We consider random fields defined by finite-region conditional probabilities
depending on a neighborhood of the region which changes with the boundary
conditions. To predict the symbols within any finite region it is necessary to
inspect a random number of neighborhood symbols which might change according to
the value of them. In analogy to the one dimensional setting we call these
neighborhood symbols the context of the region. This framework is a natural
extension, to d-dimensional fields, of the notion of variable-length Markov
chains introduced by Rissanen (1983) in his classical paper. We define an
algorithm to estimate the radius of the smallest ball containing the context
based on a realization of the field. We prove the consistency of this
estimator. Our proofs are constructive and yield explicit upper bounds for the
probability of wrong estimation of the radius of the context
Quantum Markov fields on graphs
We introduce generalized quantum Markov states and generalized d-Markov
chains which extend the notion quantum Markov chains on spin systems to that on
-algebras defined by general graphs. As examples of generalized d-Markov
chains, we construct the entangled Markov fields on tree graphs. The concrete
examples of generalized d-Markov chains on Cayley trees are also investigated.Comment: 23 pages, 1 figure. accepted to "Infinite Dimensional Anal. Quantum
Probability & Related Topics
Droplet condensation and isoperimetric towers
We consider a variational problem in a planar convex domain, motivated by
statistical mechanics of crystal growth in a saturated solution. The minimizers
are constructed explicitly and are completely characterized
On the formation/dissolution of equilibrium droplets
We consider liquid-vapor systems in finite volume at parameter
values corresponding to phase coexistence and study droplet formation due to a
fixed excess of particles above the ambient gas density. We identify
a dimensionless parameter and a
\textrm{universal} value \Deltac=\Deltac(d), and show that a droplet of the
dense phase occurs whenever \Delta>\Deltac, while, for \Delta<\Deltac, the
excess is entirely absorbed into the gaseous background. When the droplet first
forms, it comprises a non-trivial, \textrm{universal} fraction of excess
particles. Similar reasoning applies to generic two-phase systems at phase
coexistence including solid/gas--where the ``droplet'' is crystalline--and
polymorphic systems. A sketch of a rigorous proof for the 2D Ising lattice gas
is presented; generalizations are discussed heuristically.Comment: An announcement of a forthcoming rigorous work on the 2D Ising model;
to appear in Europhys. Let
Fluctuations of the Phase Boundary in the Ising Ferromagnet
We discuss statistical properties of phase boundary in the 2D low-temperature Ising ferromagnet in a box with the two-component boundary conditions. We prove the weak convergence in C [O, 1] of measures describing the fluctuations of phase boundaries in the canonical ensemble of interfaces with fixed endpoints and area enclosed below them. The limiting Gaussian measure coincides with the conditional distribution of certain Gaussian process obtained by the integral transformation of the white noise
Dobrushin states in the \phi^4_1 model
We consider the van der Waals free energy functional in a bounded interval
with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions imposing the two stable phases
at the endpoints. We compute the asymptotic free energy cost, as the length of
the interval diverges, of shifting the interface from the midpoint. We then
discuss the effect of thermal fluctuations by analyzing the \phi^4_1-measure
with Dobrushin boundary conditions. In particular, we obtain a nontrivial limit
in a suitable scaling in which the length of the interval diverges and the
temperature vanishes. The limiting state is not translation invariant and
describes a localized interface. This result can be seen as the probabilistic
counterpart of the variational convergence of the associated excess free
energy.Comment: 34 page
The low-temperature phase of Kac-Ising models
We analyse the low temperature phase of ferromagnetic Kac-Ising models in
dimensions . We show that if the range of interactions is \g^{-1},
then two disjoint translation invariant Gibbs states exist, if the inverse
temperature \b satisfies \b -1\geq \g^\k where \k=\frac
{d(1-\e)}{(2d+1)(d+1)}, for any \e>0. The prove involves the blocking
procedure usual for Kac models and also a contour representation for the
resulting long-range (almost) continuous spin system which is suitable for the
use of a variant of the Peierls argument.Comment: 19pp, Plain Te
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