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Rapid phase ordering of Ising dynamics on $\mathbb Z^2$

Probability 2026-05-11 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the phase ordering problem for the low-temperature Ising dynamics initialized from a biased and disordered initialization. Work of Fontes, Schonmann, Sidoravicius (2002) showed that at zero-temperature, Ising Glauber dynamics on Zd\mathbb Z^d for d2d\ge 2 initialized from i.i.d. spins on each vertex that are +1+1 with sufficiently large probability, absorbs into the all-plus configuration quickly. We prove that analogous behavior holds throughout the low-temperature regime of the Ising model in two dimensions. Namely, there exists p0<1p_0 <1 such that Ising Glauber dynamics initialized from i.i.d. spins that are +1+1 with probability p>p0p>p_0, run at any low temperature β>βc\beta>\beta_c converges rapidly to the plus phase measure π+\pi^+. The result is proved using a spacetime multiscale coupling valid in any d2d\ge 2, that boosts a uniform-in-β\beta quasi-polynomial bound on the mixing time of Ising dynamics with plus boundary conditions, into rapid phase ordering from biased initializations with no boundary conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2605.08052,
  title  = {Rapid phase ordering of Ising dynamics on $\mathbb Z^2$},
  author = {Reza Gheissari and Allan Sly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08052},
  year   = {2026}
}

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56 pages, 3 figures

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