Sharp threshold for the FA-2f kinetically constrained model

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Main Authors: Hartarsky, Ivailo, Martinelli, Fabio, Toninelli, Cristina
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author Hartarsky, Ivailo
Martinelli, Fabio
Toninelli, Cristina
author_facet Hartarsky, Ivailo
Martinelli, Fabio
Toninelli, Cristina
contents The Fredrickson-Andersen 2-spin facilitated model on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ (FA-2f) is a paradigmatic interacting particle system with kinetic constraints (KCM) featuring dynamical facilitation, an important mechanism in condensed matter physics. In FA-2f a site may change its state only if at least two of its nearest neighbours are empty. Although the process is reversible w.r.t. a product Bernoulli measure, it is not attractive and features degenerate jump rates and anomalous divergence of characteristic time scales as the density $q$ of empty sites tends to $0$. A natural random variable encoding the above features is $τ_0$, the first time at which the origin becomes empty for the stationary process. Our main result is the sharp threshold \[τ_0=\exp\Big(\frac{d\cdotλ(d,2)+o(1)}{q^{1/(d-1)}}\Big)\quad \text{w.h.p.}\] with $λ(d,2)$ the sharp threshold constant for 2-neighbour bootstrap percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, the monotone deterministic automaton counterpart of FA-2f. This is the first sharp result for a critical KCM and it compares with Holroyd's 2003 result on bootstrap percolation and its subsequent improvements. It also settles various controversies accumulated in the physics literature over the last four decades. Furthermore, our novel techniques enable completing the recent ambitious program on the universality phenomenon for critical KCM and establishing sharp thresholds for other two-dimensional KCM.
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spellingShingle Sharp threshold for the FA-2f kinetically constrained model
Hartarsky, Ivailo
Martinelli, Fabio
Toninelli, Cristina
Probability
Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
60K35 (Primary), 82C22, 60J27, 60C05 (Secondary)
The Fredrickson-Andersen 2-spin facilitated model on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ (FA-2f) is a paradigmatic interacting particle system with kinetic constraints (KCM) featuring dynamical facilitation, an important mechanism in condensed matter physics. In FA-2f a site may change its state only if at least two of its nearest neighbours are empty. Although the process is reversible w.r.t. a product Bernoulli measure, it is not attractive and features degenerate jump rates and anomalous divergence of characteristic time scales as the density $q$ of empty sites tends to $0$. A natural random variable encoding the above features is $τ_0$, the first time at which the origin becomes empty for the stationary process. Our main result is the sharp threshold \[τ_0=\exp\Big(\frac{d\cdotλ(d,2)+o(1)}{q^{1/(d-1)}}\Big)\quad \text{w.h.p.}\] with $λ(d,2)$ the sharp threshold constant for 2-neighbour bootstrap percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, the monotone deterministic automaton counterpart of FA-2f. This is the first sharp result for a critical KCM and it compares with Holroyd's 2003 result on bootstrap percolation and its subsequent improvements. It also settles various controversies accumulated in the physics literature over the last four decades. Furthermore, our novel techniques enable completing the recent ambitious program on the universality phenomenon for critical KCM and establishing sharp thresholds for other two-dimensional KCM.
title Sharp threshold for the FA-2f kinetically constrained model
topic Probability
Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
60K35 (Primary), 82C22, 60J27, 60C05 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02557