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On the zero-temperature limit of Gibbs states

Mathematical Physics 2010-07-07 v6 Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

We exhibit Lipschitz (and hence H\"older) potentials on the full shift {0,1}N\{0,1\}^{\mathbb{N}} such that the associated Gibbs measures fail to converge as the temperature goes to zero. Thus there are "exponentially decaying" interactions on the configuration space {0,1}Z\{0,1\}^{\mathbb Z} for which the zero-temperature limit of the associated Gibbs measures does not exist. In higher dimension, namely on the configuration space {0,1}Zd\{0,1\}^{\mathbb{Z}^{d}}, d3d\geq3, we show that this non-convergence behavior can occur for finite-range interactions, that is, for locally constant potentials.

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@article{arxiv.0907.0081,
  title  = {On the zero-temperature limit of Gibbs states},
  author = {J. -R. Chazottes and M. Hochman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0081},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

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