Hydrodynamic limit equation for a lozenge tiling Glauber dynamics

DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0548-8MaRDI QIDQ2364606zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabio Lucio Toninelli, Benoît Laslier

Publication date 21 July 2017

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03751

zbMATH Keywords

Glauber dynamicshydrodynamic limitMarkov dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Stochastic (Schramm-)Loewner evolution (SLE) (60J67) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

Abstract: We study a reversible continuous-time Markov dynamics on lozenge tilings of the plane, introduced by Luby et al. Single updates consist in concatenations of $n$ elementary lozenge rotations at adjacent vertices. The dynamics can also be seen as a reversible stochastic interface evolution. When the update rate is chosen proportional to $1/n$, the dynamics is known to enjoy especially nice features: a certain Hamming distance between configurations contracts with time on average and the relaxation time of the Markov chain is diffusive, growing like the square of the diameter of the system. Here, we present another remarkable feature of this dynamics, namely we derive, in the diffusive time scale, a fully explicit hydrodynamic limit equation for the height function (in the form of a non-linear parabolic PDE). While this equation cannot be written as a gradient flow w.r.t. a surface energy functional, it has nice analytic properties, for instance it contracts the $mathbb{L}^2$ distance between solutions. The mobility coefficient $mu$ in the equation has non-trivial but explicit dependence on the interface slope and, interestingly, is directly related to the system's surface free energy. The derivation of the hydrodynamic limit is not fully rigorous, in that it relies on an unproven assumption of local equilibrium.

Review text

The paper deals with the evolution of the interfaces separating different thermodynamic phases, and the analysis is mainly centered around the so-called hydrodynamic limit (limit of \((1/L)f(xL)\)) combined with a representation of surface by lozenges. This amounts to study a reversible continuous-time Markov dynamics. The model is described and the hydrodynamic equation is derived. In addition, one displays some arguments to support the derivation of the hydrodynamic limit under local equilibrium assumption.

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