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Order by disorder up to arbitrarily high temperature

Statistical Mechanics 2026-05-18 v2

Abstract

We prove that a class of classical lattice models on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d (d2d \geq 2) with on-site space N0\mathbb{N}_0 and nearest neighbour interaction, exhibits long-range checkerboard order at sufficiently high temperature. The ordering mechanism is purely entropic. The class of models contains the recently introduced model of Han--Huang--Komargodski--Lucas--Popov (arXiv:2503.22789), by which our work is inspired. The proof uses Pirogov--Sinai theory and the key input is a Peierls bound.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.28026,
  title  = {Order by disorder up to arbitrarily high temperature},
  author = {Ravish Mehta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.28026},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages, 3 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T12:43:52.059Z