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Metastability of the Ising model on random regular graphs at zero temperature

Probability 2015-11-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study the metastability of the ferromagnetic Ising model on a random rr-regular graph in the zero temperature limit. We prove that in the presence of a small positive external field the time that it takes to go from the all minus state to the all plus state behaves like exp(β(r/2+O(r))n){\exp(\beta (r/2+ \mathcal{O}(\sqrt{r}))n)} when the inverse temperature β\beta\rightarrow\infty and the number of vertices nn is large enough but fixed. The proof is based on the so-called pathwise approach and bounds on the isoperimetric number of random regular graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6802,
  title  = {Metastability of the Ising model on random regular graphs at zero temperature},
  author = {Sander Dommers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6802},
  year   = {2015}
}
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