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Published on: June 7, 2018
Frozen into stripes: fate of the critical Ising model after a quench
1CNRS, LPTHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 7589, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Abstract:
In this article we study numerically the final state of the two-dimensional ferromagnetic critical Ising model after a quench to zero temperature. Beginning from equilibrium at T_{c}, the system can be blocked in a variety of infinitely long lived stripe states in addition to the ground state. Similar results have already been obtained for an infinite temperature initial condition and an interesting connection to exact percolation crossing probabilities has emerged. Here we complete this picture by providing an example of stripe states precisely related to initial crossing probabilities for various boundary conditions. We thus show that this is not specific to percolation but rather that it depends on the properties of spanning clusters in the initial state.
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