Condensation and symmetry-breaking in the zero-range process with weak site disorder

DOI10.1016/J.SPA.2016.04.028zbMATH Open1366.60110arXiv1509.07672OpenAlexW2234946027WikidataQ62458328 ScholiaQ62458328MaRDI QIDQ326829FDOQ326829

Cécile Mailler, D. Ueltschi, Peter Mörters

Publication date: 12 October 2016

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Condensation phenomena in particle systems typically occur as one of two distinct types: either as a spontaneous symmetry breaking in a homogeneous system, in which particle interactions enforce condensation in a randomly located site, or as an explicit symmetry breaking in a system with background disorder, in which particles condensate in the site of extremal disorder. In this paper we confirm a recent conjecture by Godr`eche and Luck by showing, for a zero range process with weak site disorder, that there exists a phase where condensation occurs with an intermediate type of symmetry-breaking, in which particles condensate in a site randomly chosen from a range of sites favoured by disorder. We show that this type of condensation is characterised by the occurrence of a Gamma distribution in the law of the disorder at the condensation site. We further investigate fluctuations of the condensate size and confirm a phase diagram, again conjectured by Godr`eche and Luck, showing the existence of phases with normal and anomalous fluctuations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07672

zbMATH Keywords

central limit theoremgamma distributionextremescondensationinteracting particle systemzero-range processdisordered systemextended condensategrand canonical ensemblesymmetry-breakingweak disorder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

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