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arxiv: 0907.0081 · v6 · submitted 2009-07-01 · 🧮 math-ph · math.DS· math.MP

On the zero-temperature limit of Gibbs states

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We exhibit Lipschitz (and hence H\"older) potentials on the full shift $\{0,1\}^{\mathbb{N}}$ such that the associated Gibbs measures fail to converge as the temperature goes to zero. Thus there are "exponentially decaying" interactions on the configuration space $\{0,1\}^{\mathbb Z}$ for which the zero-temperature limit of the associated Gibbs measures does not exist. In higher dimension, namely on the configuration space $\{0,1\}^{\mathbb{Z}^{d}}$, $d\geq3$, we show that this non-convergence behavior can occur for finite-range interactions, that is, for locally constant potentials.

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