Nonequilibrium dynamics of a fast oscillator coupled to Glauber spins

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2010/09/P09019zbMATH Open1456.82612arXiv1007.1806OpenAlexW3104921877MaRDI QIDQ3301199FDOQ3301199

Authors: L. L. Bonilla, A. Prados, Ana Carpio 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A fast harmonic oscillator is linearly coupled with a system of Ising spins that are in contact with a thermal bath, and evolve under a slow Glauber dynamics at dimensionless temperature $heta$. The spins have a coupling constant proportional to the oscillator position. The oscillator-spin interaction produces a second order phase transition at $heta=1$ with the oscillator position as its order parameter: the equilibrium position is zero for $heta>1$ and non-zero for $heta<1$. For $heta<1$, the dynamics of this system is quite different from relaxation to equilibrium. For most initial conditions, the oscillator position performs modulated oscillations about one of the stable equilibrium positions with a long relaxation time. For random initial conditions and a sufficiently large spin system, the unstable zero position of the oscillator is stabilized after a relaxation time proportional to $heta$. If the spin system is smaller, the situation is the same until the oscillator position is close to zero, then it crosses over to a neighborhood of a stable equilibrium position about which keeps oscillating for an exponentially long relaxation time. These results of stochastic simulations are predicted by modulation equations obtained from a multiple scale analysis of macroscopic equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1806

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

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• Time-Dependent Statistics of the Ising Model
• On stable oscillations and equilibriums induced by small noise

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