The Widom–Rowlinson model under spin flip: Immediate loss and sharp recovery of quasilocality

Abstract

We consider the continuum Widom–Rowlinson model under independent spin-flip dynamics and investigate whether and when the time-evolved point process has an (almost) quasilocal specification (Gibbs-property of the time-evolved measure). Our study provides a first analysis of a Gibbs–non-Gibbs transition for point particles in Euclidean space. We find a picture of loss and recovery, in which even more regularity is lost faster than it is for time-evolved spin models on lattices.

We show immediate loss of quasilocality in the percolation regime, with full measure of discontinuity points for any specification. For the color-asymmetric percolating model, there is a transition from this non-almost-sure quasilocal regime back to an everywhere Gibbsian regime. At the sharp reentrance time $t_{G}>0$, the model is a.s. quasilocal. For the color-symmetric model, there is no reentrance. On the constructive side, for all $t>t_{G}$, we provide everywhere quasilocal specifications for the time-evolved measures and give precise exponential estimates on the influence of boundary condition.