Long-range orientational order of random near-lattice hard sphere and hard disk processes

DOI10.1017/JPR.2020.17MaRDI QIDQ3299451zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexisz Tamás Gaál

Publication date 22 July 2020

Published in Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02167

zbMATH Keywords

spontaneous symmetry breakinghard sphererigidity estimatehard disk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21)

Abstract: We show that a point process of hard spheres exhibits long-range orientational order. This process is designed to be a random perturbation of a three-dimensional lattice that satisfies a specific rigidity property, examples include the FCC and HCP lattices. We also define two-dimensional near-lattice processes by local, geometry dependent hard disk conditions. Earlier results about existence of long-range orientational order carry over and we obtain the existence of infinite-volume measures on two-dimensional point configurations that turn out to follow the orientation of a fixed triangular lattice arbitrary closely.

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