The scaling limit for zero temperature planar Ising droplets: with and without magnetic fields

Abstract

We consider the continuous time, zero-temperature heat-bath dynamics for the nearest-neighbor Ising model on $Z^2$ with positive magnetic field. For a system of size $L\in N$, we start with initial condition $σ$ such that $σ_x=-1$ if $x\in[-L,L]^2$ and $σ_x=+1$ and investigate the scaling limit of the set of $-$ spins when both time and space are rescaled by $L$. We compare the obtained result and its proof with the case of zero-magnetic fields, for which a scaling result was proved in arXiv:1112.3160. In that case, the time-scaling is diffusive and the scaling limit is given by anisotropic motion by curvature.

28 pages, 8 figures. The paper includes a review of the results in arXiv:1112.3160 as well an original result and its proof