A one-dimensional coagulation-fragmentation process with a dynamical phase transition

DOI10.1016/J.SPA.2012.02.007MaRDI QIDQ424495zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cédric Bernardin, Fabio Lucio Toninelli

Publication date 1 June 2012

Published in Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3227

zbMATH Keywords

coagulation-fragmentation modelcouplingdynamical phase transitionmixing time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99) Stochastic processes (60G99) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

Abstract: We introduce a reversible Markovian coagulation-fragmentation process on the set of partitions of $1,ldots,L$ into disjoint intervals. Each interval can either split or merge with one of its two neighbors. The invariant measure can be seen as the Gibbs measure for a homogeneous pinning model cite{cf:GBbook}. Depending on a parameter $lambda$, the typical configuration can be either dominated by a single big interval (delocalized phase), or be composed of many intervals of order $1$ (localized phase), or the interval length can have a power law distribution (critical regime). In the three cases, the time required to approach equilibrium (in total variation) scales very differently with $L$. In the localized phase, when the initial condition is a single interval of size $L$, the equilibration mechanism is due to the propagation of two "fragmentation fronts" which start from the two boundaries and proceed by power-law jumps.

Review text

A reversible Markovian coagulation-fragmentation process is introduced on the set of partitions of \(\{1,\dotsc,L\}\). Consider configurations \(\eta=(\eta_0,\dotsc,\eta_L)\) with components taking values in \(\{0,1\}\) and such that \(\eta_0=\eta_L=1\). One says that a site \(x\) is occupied by a particle if \({\eta_x=1}\). The continuous-time dynamics (heat bath dynamics) \(\{\eta(t)\}_{t\geq 0}\) is specified by a certain generator (depending on a parameter \(\lambda >0\)). Coagulation of two neighboring fragments (resp., fragmentation) is interpreted as the disappearance (resp., the creation) of a particle. It is well-known, see [\textit{G. Giacomin}, Random polymer models. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific (2007; Zbl 1125.82001)], that there exists a critical value \(\lambda_c\) such that, as \(L\to \infty\), the limit behavior of the typical fragment length is different for \(\lambda <\lambda_c\), \(\lambda >\lambda_c\) and \(\lambda =\lambda_c\). The authors study how the mixing time, i.e., the time to get close to an equilibrium in total variation, depends on \(L\) in these three phases for \(\lambda\). In particular, the mixing time is essentially of power order in \(L\) for \(\lambda >\lambda_c\) and much smaller for \(\lambda <\lambda_c\). The Peres-Winkler censoring inequalities [\textit{Y. Peres} and \textit{P. Winkler}, ``Can extra updates delay mixing?, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1112.0603}] play an essential role in the proof.

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