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Vortices and Magnetization in Kac's Model

Hicham El-Bouanani, Michel Rouleux

math-pharXiv:math-ph/0606052

Abstract

We consider a 2-dimensional planar rotator on a large, but finite lattice with a ferromagnetic Kac potential Jγ(i)=γ2J(γi), J with compact support. The system is subject to boundary conditions with vorticity. Using a Glauber like dynamics, we compute minimizers of the free energy functional at low temperature, i.e. in the regime of phase transition. We have the numerical evidence of a vortex structure for minimizers, which present many common features with those of the Ginzburg-Landau functional.

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