Microscopic models for uphill diffusion

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA8C68MaRDI QIDQ4596130zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anna De Masi, Errico Presutti, M. Colangeli

Publication date 30 November 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01825

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier lawKac potentialphase transitionsstochastic celluar automatauphill diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of cellular automata (37B15) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: We study a system of particles which jump on the sites of the interval $[1,L]$ of $mathbbZ$. The density at the boundaries is kept fixed to simulate the action of mass reservoirs. The evolution depends on two parameters $lambd{a}^{\prime }ge0$ and $$ which are the strength of an external potential and respectively of an attractive potential among the particles. When $$ the system behaves diffusively and the density profile of the final stationary state is linear, Fick's law is satisfied. When $lambd{a}^{\prime }>0$ and $$ the system models the diffusion of carbon in the presence of silicon as in the Darken experiment: the final state of the system is in qualitative agreement with the experimental one and uphill diffusion is present at the weld. Finally if $lambd{a}^{\prime }=0$ and $$ is suitably large, the system simulates a vapor-liquid phase transition and we have a surprising phenomenon. Namely when the densities in the reservoirs correspond respectively to metastable vapor and metastable liquid we find a final stationary current which goes uphill from the reservoir with smaller density (vapor) to that with larger density (liquid). Our results are mainly numerical, we have convincing theoretical explanations yet we miss a complete mathematical proof.

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