Asymptotic thermodynamic criteria for the persistency of metastable states

DOI10.1007/BF00669717MaRDI QIDQ1083133zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bernard H. Lavenda, C. Cardella

Publication date 1986

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00669717

zbMATH Keywords

entropy principlekinetic mean-field model of a ferromagneticmean first exit timethermodynamic limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Markov processes (60J99) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

Review text

The mean first exit time is logarithmically equivalent to the exponential of the smallest total free energy barrier separating metastable from stable states for a general class of discontinuous Markov processes in the thermodynamic limit. This asymptotic principle of minimum relative free energy difference constitutes a generalization of the corresponding entropy principle to systems in thermal contact with their environment and formalizes the results of a number of previous authors. The overwhelmingly most probable path of exit, in the thermodynamic limit, is the mirror image in time of the causal path. Along the anticausal path the free energy is an increasing function of time and hence does not provide any criterion of evolution. The kinetic mean-field model of a ferromagnetic serves for illustration.

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