Stationary currents in long-range interacting magnetic systems

DOI10.1007/S11040-020-09354-2MaRDI QIDQ2007193zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto Boccagna

Publication date 12 October 2020

Published in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07564

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsKac potentialsFick's lawuphill diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: We construct a solution for the $1d$ integro-differential stationary equation derived from a finite-volume version of the mesoscopic model proposed in [G. B. Giacomin, J. L. Lebowitz, "Phase segregation dynamics in particle system with long range interactions", Journal of Statistical Physics 87(1) (1997)]. This is the continuous limit of an Ising spin chain interacting at long range through Kac potentials. The microscopic system is in contact with reservoirs of fixed magnetization and infinite volume, so that their density is not affected by any exchange with the bulk in the original Kawasaki dynamics. At the mesoscopic level, this condition is mimicked by the adoption Dirichlet boundary conditions. We derive the stationary equation of the model starting from the Lebowitz-Penrose free energy functional defined on the interval $[-varepsilo{n}^{-1},varepsilo{n}^{-1}]$, $varepsilon>0$. For $varepsilon$ small, we prove that below the critical temperature there exists a solution that carries positive current provided boundary values are opposite in sign and lie in the metastable region. Such profile is no longer monotone, connecting the two phases through an antisymmetric interface localized around the origin. This represents an analytic proof of the existence of diffusion along the concentration gradient in one-component systems undergoing a phase transition, a phenomenon generally known as uphill diffusion. However uniqueness is lacking, and we have a clue that the stationary solution obtained is not unique, as suggested by numerical simulations.

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