Phase coexistence of gradient Gibbs states

Details Phase coexistence of gradient Gibbs states Phase coexistence of gradient Gibbs states

2005-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/math/0512502v2

Probab. Theory Rel. Fields 139 (2007), no. 1-2, 1-39

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Probability

3 figs, PTRF style files included

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00440-006-0013-6

We consider the (scalar) gradient fields $\eta=(\eta_b)$--with $b$ denoting the nearest-neighbor edges in $\Z^2$--that are distributed according to the Gibbs measure proportional to $\texte^{-\beta H(\eta)}\nu(\textd\eta)$. Here $H=\sum_bV(\eta_b)$ is the Hamiltonian, $V$ is a symmetric potential, $\beta>0$ is the inverse temperature, and $\nu$ is the Lebesgue measure on the linear space defined by imposing the loop condition $\eta_{b_1}+\eta_{b_2}=\eta_{b_3}+\eta_{b_4}$ for each plaquette $(b_1,b_2,b_3,b_4)$ in $\Z^2$. For convex $V$, Funaki and Spohn have shown that ergodic infinite-volume Gibbs measures are characterized by their tilt. We describe a mechanism by which the gradient Gibbs measures with non-convex $V$ undergo a structural, order-disorder phase transition at some intermediate value of inverse temperature $\beta$. At the transition point, there are at least two distinct gradient measures with zero tilt, i.e., $E \eta_b=0$.

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