Heriot-Watt Mathematics Report Series
HWM98-39, 10 Dec 1998

Glassy transition and metastability in four-spin Ising Model

A Lipowski and D Johnston


Abstract

Using Monte Carlo simulations we show that the three-dimensional Ising model with four-spin interactions has some characteristic glassy features. The model dynamically generates diverging energy barriers, which gives rise to slow dynamics at low temperature. Moreover, in a certain temperature range both the low and high-temperature phases of the model are stable.

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