Stationary definition of persistence for finite temperature phase ordering

Abstract

For the two dimensional kinetic Ising model at finite temperature, the local mean magnetisation $M_t=t^{-1}\int_{0}^t\sigma(t')\d t'$, simply related to the fraction of time spent by a given spin in the positive direction, has a limiting distribution, singular at $\pm m_0(T)$, the Onsager spontaneous magnetization. The exponent of this singularity defines the persistence exponent $\theta$. We also study first passage exponents associated to persistent large deviations of $M_t$, and their temperature dependence.