Thermodynamics of a hierarchical mixture of cubes

DOI10.1007/S10955-020-02531-1zbMATH Open1437.82007arXiv1909.09546OpenAlexW3101517369MaRDI QIDQ2175120FDOQ2175120

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 28 April 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a toy model for phase transitions in mixtures of incompressible droplets. The model consists of non-overlapping hypercubes in $mathbb{Z}^d$ of sidelengths $2^j$, $jin{N}_0$. Cubes belong to an admissible set $mathbbB$ such that if two cubes overlap, then one is contained in the other. Cubes of sidelength $2^j$ have activity $z_j$ and density $h{o}_j$. We prove explicit formulas for the pressure and entropy, prove a van-der-Waals type equation of state, and invert the density-activity relations. In addition we explore phase transitions for parameter-dependent activities $z_j(mu)=exp(2^{dj}mu-E_j)$. We prove a sufficient criterion for absence of phase transition, show that constant energies $E_{j}equivlambda$ lead to a continuous phase transition, and prove a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a first-order phase transition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09546

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zbMATH Keywords

hierarchical modelcondensationexcluded volumeincompressible dropletspolymer partition function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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