Exponential rate of convergence in current reservoirs

DOI10.3150/14-BEJ628MaRDI QIDQ2515519zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anna De Masi, Errico Presutti, Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis, Maria Eulalia Vares

Publication date 5 August 2015

Published in Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0624, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1432732039

zbMATH Keywords

birth-and-death processcurrent reservoirsDöblin processexclusion processexponential convergenceinteracting particle systemmoving environmentrandom walkstationary measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a family of interacting particle systems on $[-N,N]$ that arises as a natural model for current reservoirs and Fick's law. We study the exponential rate of convergence to the stationary measure, which we prove to be of the order $N^{-2}$.

Review text

The authors of this article study an interacting particle system that serves as model for Fick's first law of diffusion, which proportionates the current to the gradient of the concentration. The studied particle system is a continuous-time Markov process with state space \(\{0, 1\}^{[-N, N]}\). The dynamics is described by the sum of the generators of a nearest-neighbor symmetric exclusion process and a certain birth-and-death process. In the latter process, births and deaths occur in a neighborhood of \(-N\) and \(N\), respectively. The main result of the article is that the exponential rate of convergence to the stationary measure is of order \(N^2\). To solve this out-of-equilibrium problem, the authors ``relied on stochastic inequalities and coupling methods, thus reducing the problem to that of bounding the extinction time of the set of discrepancies between two coupled evolutions.

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