Properties of Interfaces in the two and three dimensional Ising Model

Abstract

To investigate order-order interfaces, we perform multimagnetical Monte Carlo simulations of the $2D$ and $3D$ Ising model. Following Binder we extract the interfacial free energy from the infinite volume limit of the magnetic probability density. Stringent tests of the numerical methods are performed by reproducing with high precision exact $2D$ results. In the physically more interesting $3D$ case we estimate the amplitude $F_0^s$ of the critical interfacial tension $F^s=F_0^s{t}^{\mu }$ to be $F_0^s=1.52\pm 0.05$. This result is in good agreement with a previous MC calculation by Mon, as well as with experimental results for related amplitude ratios. In addition, we study in some details the shape of the magnetic probability density for temperatures below the Curie point.

Comments: 25 pages; sorry no figures included