The dynamics of the 2D SOS model
Presenter
February 23, 2012
Keywords:
- mathematical statistical mechanics
- probability theory
- percolation
- phase transitions
- scaling laws
- SLE
- Ising model
- material interfaces
MSC:
- 82C20
- 82C26
- 82C27
- 82C05
- 82C44
- 82C43
- 82Cxx
- 82-xx
- 82C24
Abstract
We present new results on the (2+1)-dimensional Solid-On-Solid model at low temperatures. Bricmont, El-Mellouki and Froelich (1986) showed that in the presence of a floor there is an entropic repulsion phenomenon, lifting the surface to a height which is logarithmic in the side of the box. We refine this and establish the typical height of the SOS surface is precisely the floor of [1/(4\beta)\log n], where n is the side-length of the box and \beta is the inverse-temperature. In contrast to the 1D behavior, the Glauber dynamics for SOS is exponentially slow, as it must pass through a series of meta-stable states in order to rise from an initially flat configuration to its final height.
Based on joint works with Pietro Caputo, Eyal Lubetzky, Fabio Martinelli and Fabio Toninelli.