Cutoff for the mean-field zero-range process

DOI10.1214/19-AOP1336zbMATH Open1448.60159arXiv1804.04608OpenAlexW2981349303MaRDI QIDQ2280554FDOQ2280554

Mathieu Merle, Justin Salez

Publication date: 18 December 2019

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

Abstract: We study the mixing time of the unit-rate zero-range process on the complete graph, in the regime where the number $n$ of sites tends to infinity while the density of particles per site stabilizes to some limit $ho>0$. We prove that the worst-case total-variation distance to equilibrium drops abruptly from $1$ to $0$ at time $nleft(ho+frac12h{o}^{2}ight)$. More generally, we determine the mixing time from an arbitrary initial configuration. The answer turns out to depend on the largest initial heights in a remarkably explicit way. The intuitive picture is that the system separates into a slowly evolving solid phase and a quickly relaxing liquid phase. As time passes, the solid phase {dissolves} into the liquid phase, and the mixing time is essentially the time at which the system becomes completely liquid. Our proof combines meta-stability, separation of timescale, fluid limits, propagation of chaos, entropy, and a spectral estimate by Morris (2006).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04608

zbMATH Keywords

zero-range processcutoff phenomenon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Elements of Information Theory
• Ordinary differential equations. An introduction to nonlinear analysis. Transl. from the German by Gerhard Metzen
• Shuffling Cards and Stopping Times
• Generating a random permutation with random transpositions
• Interaction of Markov processes
• Glauber dynamics for the mean-field Ising model: cut-off, critical power law, and metastability
• Spectral gap for the zero range process with constant rate
• The simple exclusion process on the circle has a diffusive cutoff window
• Mixing time and cutoff for the adjacent transposition shuffle and the simple exclusion
• Cutoff phenomenon for the simple exclusion process on the complete graph
• Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of the zero-range process and related models
• The cutoff phenomenon in finite Markov chains.
• Cutoff for the Ising model on the lattice
• Entropy dissipation estimates in a zero-range dynamics
• Mathematical Aspects of Mixing Times in Markov Chains
• The cutoff profile for the simple exclusion process on the circle
• Cutoff for the East process
• Cutoff for General Spin Systems with Arbitrary Boundary Conditions
• Rate of relaxation for a mean-field zero-range process

Cited In (14)

• From the binomial reshuffling model to Poisson distribution of money
• Entropy dissipation and propagation of chaos for the uniform reshuffling model
• The mean-field zero-range process with unbounded monotone rates: mixing time, cutoff, and Poincaré constant
• Explicit decay rate for the Gini index in the repeated averaging model
• Uncovering a Two-Phase Dynamics from a Dollar Exchange Model with Bank and Debt
• Cutoff for the mean-field zero-range process with bounded monotone rates
• A version of Aldous' spectral-gap conjecture for the zero range process
• Derivation of wealth distributions from biased exchange of money
• \(K\)-averaging agent-based model: propagation of chaos and convergence to equilibrium
• From interacting agents to Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution of money
• Mixing of the averaging process and its discrete dual on finite-dimensional geometries
• Cutoff for non-negatively curved Markov chains
• Entropic curvature and convergence to equilibrium for mean-field dynamics on discrete spaces
• Uniform in time propagation of chaos for a Moran model

This page was built for publication: Cutoff for the mean-field zero-range process

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2280554)