English

Freezing vs. equilibration dynamics in the Potts model

Statistical Mechanics 2023-03-01 v3

Abstract

We study the quench dynamics of the qq Potts model on different bi/tri-dimensional lattice topologies. In particular we are interested in instantaneous quenches from TiT_i \rightarrow \infty to TTsT \leq T_s, where TsT_s is the (pseudo)-spinodal temperature. The goal is to explain why, in the large-qq limit, the low-temperature dynamics freezes on some lattices while, on others, the equilibrium configuration is easily reached. The cubic (3d3d) and the triangular (2d2d) lattices are analysed in detail. We show that the dynamics blocks when lattices have acyclic \textit{unitary structures} while the system goes to the equilibrium when these are cyclic, no matter the coordination number (zz) of the particular considered lattice.

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@article{arxiv.2208.08770,
  title  = {Freezing vs. equilibration dynamics in the Potts model},
  author = {Francesco Chippari and Marco Picco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.08770},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

20 pages, 13 figures, added references and minor corrections after review process

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