High-degeneracy Potts coarsening

Denholm, J. (2021) High-degeneracy Potts coarsening. Physical Review E, 103 (1). 012119. ISSN 2470-0053 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.012119)

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Abstract

I examine the fate of a kinetic Potts ferromagnet with a high ground-state degeneracy that undergoes a deep quench to zero-temperature. I consider single spin-flip dynamics on triangular lattices of linear dimension 8 ≤ L ≤ 128 and set the number of spin states q equal to the number of lattice sites L×L. The ground state is the most abundant final state, and is reached with probability ≈ 0.71. Three-hexagon states occur with probability ≈ 0.26, and hexagonal tessellations with more than three clusters form with probabilities of O(10−3 ) or less. Spanning stripe states—where the domain walls run along one of the three lattice directions—appear with probability ≈ 0.03. “Blinker” configurations, which contain perpetually flippable spins, also emerge, but with a probability that is vanishingly small with the system size.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:75031
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    19 January 2021
    Published
    27 December 2020
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:12 Jan 2021 15:38
    Last modified:09 Apr 2024 02:05
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/75031
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