Metastability for expanding bubbles on a sticky substrate

DOI10.1214/21-AAP1763zbMATH Open1498.60389arXiv2007.07832OpenAlexW3043213772MaRDI QIDQ2094571FDOQ2094571

Hubert Lacoin, Shangjie Yang

Publication date: 31 October 2022

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the dynamical behavior of a one dimensional interface interacting with a sticky unpenetrable substrate or wall. The interface is subject to two effects going in opposite directions. Contact between the interface and the substrate are given an energetic bonus while an external force with constant intensity pulls the interface away from the wall. Our interface is modeled by the graph of a one-dimensional nearest-neighbor path on $mathbb{Z}_{+}$, starting at $0$ and ending at $0$ after $2N$ steps, the wall corresponding to level-zero the horizontal axis. At equilibrium each path $xi=(x{i}_x{)}_{x=0}^{2N}$, is given a probability proportional to $lambd{a}^{H(xi)}exp(fracsigmaNA(xi))$, where $$ and $A(xi)$ is the area enclosed between the path $xi$ and the $x$-axis. We then consider the classical heat-bath dynamics which equilibrates the value of each $x{i}_x$ at a constant rate via corner-flip. Investigating the statics of the model, we derive the full phase diagram in $lambda$ and $sigma$ of this model, and identify the critical line which separates a localized phase where the pinning force sticks the interface to the wall and a delocalized one, for which the external force stabilizes $xi$ around a deterministic shape at a macroscopic distance of the wall. On the dynamical side, we identify a second critical line, which separates a rapidly mixing phase (for which the system mixes in polynomial time) to a slow phase where the mixing time grows exponentially. In this slowly mixing regime we obtain a sharp estimate of the mixing time on the $log$ scale, and provide evidences of a metastable behavior.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07832

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainspartition functionmetastabilityspectral gap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

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