{
  "id": "cond-mat/0204098",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2002-04-04T18:23:33.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-04-04T18:23:33.000Z",
  "title": "Low-temperature Metastability of Ising Models: Prefactors, Divergences, and Discontinuities",
  "authors": [
    "Mark A. Novotny"
  ],
  "comment": "14 pages, 8 figures, Workshop on Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter Physics XV",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
    "cond-mat.soft"
  ],
  "abstract": "The metastable lifetime of the square-lattice and simple-cubic-lattice kinetic Ising models are studied in the low-temperature limit. The simulations are performed using Monte Carlo with Absorbing Markov Chain algorithms to simulate extremely long low-temperature lifetimes. The question being addressed is at what temperatures the mathematically rigorous low-temperature results become valid. It is shown that the answer depends partly on how close the system is to fields at which the prefactor for the metastable decay either has a discontinuity or diverges.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2002-04-04T18:23:33.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "low-temperature metastability",
      "discontinuity",
      "simulate extremely long low-temperature lifetimes",
      "divergences",
      "simple-cubic-lattice kinetic ising models"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 14,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2002cond.mat..4098N"
    }
  }
}