Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
Editor's note
Kinetic Ising models in 1D provide a gallery of exactly solvable systems with nontrivial dynamics. The emphasis has traditionally been on their exact solvability, although much attention has also been devoted to models with conservation laws that have to be treated by numerical and approximation methods.
Chapter 4 reviews these models with emphasis on steady states and the approach to steady-state behavior. Chapter 5 puts the simplest 1D kinetic Ising models into a wider framework of the evaluation of dynamical critical behavior, analytically, in 1D, and numerically, for general dimension. Finally, Ch. 6 describes low-temperature nonequilibrium properties such as domain growth and freezing.
For a general description of dynamical critical behavior, not limited to 1D, as well as an excellent review and classification of various types of dynamics, the reader is directed to the classical work [1]. Certain probabilistic cellular automata are equivalent to kinetic Ising models.
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