A continuum of pure states in the Ising model on a halfplane
Mathematical Physics
2017-12-06 v2 Statistical Mechanics
math.MP
Abstract
We study the homogeneous nearest-neighbor Ising ferromagnet on the right half plane with a Dobrushin type boundary condition --- say plus on the top part of the boundary and minus on the bottom. For sufficiently low temperature , we completely characterize the pure (i.e., extremal) Gibbs states, as follows. There is exactly one for each angle ; here specifies the asymptotic angle of the interface separating regions where the spin configuration looks like that of the plus (respectively, minus) full-plane state. Some of these conclusions are extended all the way to by developing new Ising exact solution result -- in particular, there is at least one pure state for each .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.05411,
title = {A continuum of pure states in the Ising model on a halfplane},
author = {Douglas Abraham and Charles M. Newman and Senya Shlosman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05411},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
In this version, a discussion of the 3D case is included