Metastability in the Potts model: exact results in the large q limit

Onofrio Mazzarisi , Federico Corberi , Leticia F. Cugliandolo (1) , Marco Picco (1)

1 LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies

We study the metastable equilibrium properties of the Potts model with heat-bath transition rates using a novel expansion. The method is especially powerful for large number of state spin variables and it is notably accurate in a rather wide range of temperatures around the phase transition.

Domaines: Autre [cond-mat.other]; Physique [physics]

Onofrio Mazzarisi, Federico Corberi, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Marco Picco. Metastability in the Potts model: exact results in the large q limit. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2020, 2020 (6), pp.063214. ⟨10.1088/1742-5468/ab8556⟩. ⟨hal-02989285⟩