Analyticity properties of the surface free energy of the Ising model

For an Ising ferromagnet with nearest-neighbour interactions of strengthK and surface magnetic fieldh, the surface free energy in the presence of a positively (or negatively) magnetized zero-field bulk phase is shown to be analytic inh for Reh<K–/, where =2.96 ... and is the inverse temperature. This puts the lower boundK–/ on the values ofh at which wetting and layering transitions can take place.     

The transfer matrix for a pure phase in the two-dimensional Ising model

The problem of diagonalizing the transfer matrix for the two dimensional Ising model with all boundary spins equal to +1 is solved by use of the spinor method. This provides a simple proof that the spontaneous magnetization is actually given by the well known formula for the long range order with torodial boundary conditions, and this means that the critical temperature is precisely that temperature above which the state is unique and below which it is non unique. An expression for the magnetization at finite distance from the boundary is also given, and a simple derivation of the formula for the surface tension between two coexisting phases is presented. Finally the relation between the degeneracy of the spectrum and the phase transition is discussed.     

An analyticity bound for two-dimensional Ising model at low temperature

We study the coexistence phase in the two-dimensional Ising model. Optimizing the cluster expansion technique, we are able to prove the phase separation phenomenon, with the Onsager value for the surface tension, in a range , where estimates from above the critical within 19% and essentially coincides with the entropic bound.     

Probability distribution of random paths in the Ising model at low temperature

Communications in Mathematical Physics - The random walk representation of then-dimensional Ising model exhibits the 2-point correlation function 〈σ(x) σ(y)〉 as a sum of...     

Interface free energy and transition temperature of the square-lattice Ising antiferromagnet at finite magnetic field

We use a simple method to calculate interface properties of the square-lattice Ising antiferromagnet with nearest neighbour interaction. The method bypasses the more complicated bulk problem by taking into account only interface configurations of spins and allows the inclusion of a finite magnetic field. From this we derive two new results: 1) the interface free energy associated with the coexistence of the two antiferromagnetic phases at finite magnetic field, and 2) the transition temperature as a function of the magnetic field which determines the phase boundary.     

A central limit theorem for the Fourth Wick power of the free lattice field

LetG _a be the free lattice field measure of massm ₀ onaZ ^d , and: _x ⁴ : be the corresponding fourth Wick power of the lattice field _x . LetgC ₀ (R ^d ),g0, be a given function anda=a(a)a satisfy: lim _a0+a=0 andaZ ^d aZ ^d . We prove that ifd3, ord=2 and lim _a0+ a|loga|²=, then satisfies the central limit theorem: there isV(a, a) with lim _a0+ V(a, a)= such that the distribution of underG _a is convergent to the standard normal distribution, asa0⁺.     

Boundary conditions and correlation functions in the ν-dimensional Ising model at low temperature

The boundary condition dependence of the correlation functions in a phase transition region of the thermodynamic parameters is of great importance to understand the character and properties of the phase transition itself. In this paper we study the boundary condition dependence of certain correlation functions in the Ising model at low temperature.     

First order phase transitions in the antiferromagnetic Ising model on a pure Husimi lattice

The antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Ising model on the pure Husimi lattice with three sites in the elementary polygon (p=3$p=3$) and the coordination number z=6$z=6$ is investigated which represents the simplest approximation of the antiferromagnetic Ising model on the regular triangular lattice which takes into account effects of geometric frustration. The region of parameters is found in which two physical phases coexist. In addition, the existence of the first order phase transitions between these two coexisting phases is demonstrated and investigated in detail. A detailed analysis of the magnetization properties of the model is performed and the existence of the magnetization plateaus for low temperatures is shown. All possible ground states of the model are found and discussed.     

Analyticity properties of the Ising model in the antiferromagnetic phase

The partition function of the Ising antiferromagnet is proved to have no zeroes in an annulus around the origin in the complexz-plane. The intersection of this annulus with the positive real axis belongs to the antiferromagnetic region. The free energy and the correlation functions are analytic in the annulus.On leave of absence from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands; supported by the Netherlands Organization for Pure Scientific Research (Z.W.O.).Supported by the National Swiss Foundation for Scientific Research.     

Analyticity of the free energy of the two-dimensional random Ising model

It is shown that the systematic-expansion method of the free energy of the two-dimensional random Ising model, by Hoever and Zittartz, does not lead to evidence for the absence of a spin glass transition as they claimed.     

Organization and energy properties of metastable states for the random-field Ising model

Random-field Ising model (RFIM) systems are characterized by a large number of metastable states corresponding to local minima of the system energy with respect to single spin flip. We classified the minima in a hierarchical way based on the possibility of a given state to escape from a basin of mutually reachable states. We investigate the energy properties of the metastable states in relation to the basin they belong to: states of particularly high energy, obtained by fast-quenching randomly initial spin configurations, tend to have access to a complex structure of correlated basins, opposite to what is found for low-energy states. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the connection between the properties of the basin oriented graph and the energy of the corresponding states.     

High temperature limit of the order parameter correlation functions in the quantum Ising model

In this paper we use the exact results for the anisotropic two-dimensional Ising model obtained by Bugrii and Lisovyy [A.I. Bugrii, O.O. Lisovyy, Theor. Math. Phys. 140 (2004) 987] to derive the expressions for dynamical correlation functions for the quantum Ising model in one dimension at high temperatures.     

The stationarity of the free energy in the Ising model of spin glasses

The stationarity of the high-temperature free energy in the Ising model for spin glasses has been proved by use of the generalized Legendre transformation between the functionals U_c(h_α) and U'_c(S_α). If we retain only the first two diagrams of the free energy then the well-known result of Thouless et al. is obtained.     

A functional central limit theorem for a nonequilibrium model of interacting particles with unbounded intensity

Under suitable physically reasonable initial assumptions, a functional central limit theorem is obtained for a nonequilibrium model of randomly interacting particles with unbounded jump intensity. This model is related to a nonlinear Boltzmann-type equation.     

Convergence to the ground-state energy in the thermodynamic limit of the Ising model in a strong transverse field

For the quantum mechanical Ising model in a strong transverse field we show that the convergence of the ground-state energy per site as the volume goes to infinity has an Ornstein-Zernicke behavior. That is, if the diameter of thed-dimensional lattice is given byL, the absolute value of the difference of the ground-state energy per site and its limit is asymptotically exp(-L)L ^–d/2 for some positive constant. We also show that the correlation function has the same behavior. Our results are derived by cluster expansions, using a method of Bricmont and Fröhlich which we extend to the quantum mechanical case.     

Interfacial free energy of the two-dimensional Ising model from the renormalization group

The interfacial free energy of a two-dimensional Ising model is calculated by using various renormalization group schemes. The results obtained are quantitatively consistent with known exact results. In addition, a general discussion of various drawbacks within different renormalization group approximations is given. The best result are obtained with the 4×4 finite cluster approximation, while the Migdal-Kadanoff approximation seems to be inherently unsuitable for calculation of interfacial properties.     

Scaling limit of the energy variable for the two-dimensional Ising ferromagnet

The critical point limit law (scaling limit) of the suitably renormalized energy variable is explicitly calculated for the two-dimensional nearest-neighbour Ising cylinder with free edges. It is shown that the renormalization factor has to behave as (2M 2N lnN)^1/2, where 2M denotes the number of rows and 2N the number of columns. By first taking the limitM and thenN, the limit law is proven to be Gaussian.     

Entropy, free energy and phase transitions in the lattice Lotka-Volterra model

A thermodynamic approach is developed for reactive dynamic models restricted to substrates of arbitrary dimensions, including fractal substrates. The thermodynamic formalism is successfully applied to the lattice Lotka-Volterra (LLV) model of autocatalytic reactions on various lattice substrates. Different regimes of reactions described as phases, and phase transitions, are obtained using this approach. The predictions of thermodynamic theory confirm extensive numerical kinetic Monte Carlo simulations on square and fractal lattices. Extensions of the formalism to multispecies LLV models are also presented. This article was submitted by the authors in English.