Collective excitations and retarded interactions

Abstract
We study the dynamics of many-body systems with retarded interactions and show how their non-Markovian character can lead to nonergodic behavior. This nonergodicity is characterized by the appearance of long periods or chaotic wanderings in phase space. We construct the phase diagrams for Ising-type systems with delayed interactions, and show the emergence of non-Gibbsian measures as a function of both interaction strengths and delays.