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Spin depolarization decay rates in α-symmetric stable fields on cubic lattices

✍ Scribed by Sunder Sethuraman; Lin Xu


Book ID
102651427
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
632 KB
Volume
49
Category
Article
ISSN
0010-3640

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✦ Synopsis


We study the asymptotic, long-time behavior of the energy function where {X, : 0 5 s < XI} is the standard random walk on the &dimensional lattice Zd, 1 < a 5 2, and f : R+ + R+ is any nondecreasing concave function. In the special case f(z) = z, our setting represents a lattice model for the study of transverse magnetization of spins diffusing in a homogeneous, a-stable, i.i.d., random, longitudinal field {XV(z) : z E Z d } with common marginal distribution; the standard a-symmetric stable distribution; the parameter X describes the intensity of the field.

Using large-deviation techniques, we show that S,(X, a, f) = limt,, E(t; A; f) exists.

Moreover, we obtain a variational formula for this decay rate S,. Finally, we analyze the behavior Sc(X, a, f) as X + 0 when f(z) = so for all 1 2 p > 0.

Consequently, several physical conjectures with respect to lattice models of transverse magnetization are resolved by setting , CJ = 1 in our results. We show that Sc(X,a, 1) N A" for d 2 3, Xa(ln t)n-l in d = 2, and X. +l in d = 1. @I% John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

2a 1 The Model and Main Results

In [ll, lo], an analysis of the tranverse magnetization of spins diffusing in a random longitudinal field is proposed. These papers give convincing physical arguments when the randomness is Gaussian or derived from an a-stable symmetric distribution. In [2], these arguments are substantiated using largedeviation techniques. Mitra and Doussal in [ 1 I] also address the question of universality by developing a discrete lattice model in which similar results for the continuum case are derived.

We now describe this model: Let {V(z) : 2 E E d } be an i.i.d. random field with common distribution, the a-stable symmetric distribution, having characteristic function