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Results are stated concerning the asymptotic growth of relaxation times for basic stochastic Ising models as the external field vanishes.
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Schonmann, R.H. (1993). Relaxation Times for Stochastic Ising Models in the Limit of Vanishing External Field at Fixed Low Temperatures. In: Boccara, N., Goles, E., Martinez, S., Picco, P. (eds) Cellular Automata and Cooperative Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 396. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1691-6_45
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