Dynamical Gibbs–non-Gibbs transitions in Widom–Rowlinson models on trees

Abstract

We consider the soft-core Widom-Rowlinson model for particles with spins and holes, on a Cayley tree of order $d$ (which has $d + 1$ nearest neighbours), depending on repulsion strength $\beta$ between particles of different signs and on an activity parameter $\lambda$ for particles. We analyse Gibbsian properties of the time-evolved intermediate Gibbs measure of the static model, under a spin-flip time evolution, in a regime of large repulsion strength $\beta$. We first show that there is a dynamical transition, in which the measure becomes non-Gibbsian at large times, independently of the particle activity, for any $d \geq 2$. In our second and main result, we also show that for large $\beta$ and at large times, the measure of the set of bad configurations (discontinuity points) changes from zero to one as the particle activity $\lambda$ increases, assuming that $d \geq 4$. Our proof relies on a general zero-one law for bad configurations on the tree, and the introduction of a set of uniformly bad configurations given in terms of subtree percolation, which we show to become typical at high particle activity.