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Zero-temperature freezing in the three-dimensional kinetic Ising model
Phys. Rev. E 83, 030104(R) – Published 18 March, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.030104
Abstract
We investigate the relaxation of the Ising-Glauber model on a periodic cubic lattice after a quench to zero temperature. In contrast to the conventional picture from phase-ordering kinetics, we find the following: (i) Domains at long time are highly interpenetrating and topologically complex, with average genus growing algebraically with system size. (ii) The long-time state is almost never static, but rather contains “blinker” spins that can flip ad infinitum with no energy cost. (iii) The energy relaxation is extremely slow, with a characteristic time that grows exponentially with system size.
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