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Rotating states in driven clock- and XY-models

Mathematical Physics 2015-05-28 v1 Statistical Mechanics math.MP Probability

Abstract

We consider 3D active plane rotators, where the interaction between the spins is of XY-type and where each spin is driven to rotate. For the clock-model, when the spins take N\gg1 possible values, we conjecture that there are two low-temperature regimes. At very low temperatures and for small enough drift the phase diagram is a small perturbation of the equilibrium case. At larger temperatures the massless modes appear and the spins start to rotate synchronously for arbitrary small drift. For the driven XY-model we prove that there is essentially a unique translation-invariant and stationary distribution despite the fact that the dynamics is not ergodic.

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@article{arxiv.1107.0370,
  title  = {Rotating states in driven clock- and XY-models},
  author = {Christian Maes and Senya Shlosman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.0370},
  year   = {2015}
}
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