Non-constant ground configurations in the disordered ferromagnet

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Main Authors: Bassan, Michal, Gilboa, Shoni, Peled, Ron
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author Bassan, Michal
Gilboa, Shoni
Peled, Ron
author_facet Bassan, Michal
Gilboa, Shoni
Peled, Ron
contents The disordered ferromagnet is a disordered version of the ferromagnetic Ising model in which the coupling constants are non-negative quenched random. A ground configuration is an infinite-volume configuration whose energy cannot be reduced by finite modifications. It is a long-standing challenge to ascertain whether the disordered ferromagnet on the $\mathbb{Z}^D$ lattice admits non-constant ground configurations. We answer this affirmatively in dimensions $D\ge 4$, when the coupling constants are sampled independently from a sufficiently concentrated distribution. The obtained ground configurations are further shown to be translation-covariant with respect to $\mathbb{Z}^{D-1}$ translations of the disorder. Our result is proved by showing that the finite-volume interface formed by Dobrushin boundary conditions is localized, and converges to an infinite-volume interface. This may be expressed in purely combinatorial terms, as a result on the fluctuations of certain minimal cutsets in the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^D$ endowed with independent edge capacities.
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spellingShingle Non-constant ground configurations in the disordered ferromagnet
Bassan, Michal
Gilboa, Shoni
Peled, Ron
Mathematical Physics
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82B44, 60K37, 60K35, 82B41
The disordered ferromagnet is a disordered version of the ferromagnetic Ising model in which the coupling constants are non-negative quenched random. A ground configuration is an infinite-volume configuration whose energy cannot be reduced by finite modifications. It is a long-standing challenge to ascertain whether the disordered ferromagnet on the $\mathbb{Z}^D$ lattice admits non-constant ground configurations. We answer this affirmatively in dimensions $D\ge 4$, when the coupling constants are sampled independently from a sufficiently concentrated distribution. The obtained ground configurations are further shown to be translation-covariant with respect to $\mathbb{Z}^{D-1}$ translations of the disorder. Our result is proved by showing that the finite-volume interface formed by Dobrushin boundary conditions is localized, and converges to an infinite-volume interface. This may be expressed in purely combinatorial terms, as a result on the fluctuations of certain minimal cutsets in the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^D$ endowed with independent edge capacities.
title Non-constant ground configurations in the disordered ferromagnet
topic Mathematical Physics
Probability
82B44, 60K37, 60K35, 82B41
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06437