Metastability for Kawasaki dynamics at low temperature with two types of particles

DOI10.1214/EJP.V17-1693zbMATH Open1246.60119arXiv1101.6069MaRDI QIDQ428601FDOQ428601

Francesca Romana Nardi, F. den Hollander, Alessio Troiani

Publication date: 22 June 2012

Published in: Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is the first in a series of three papers in which we study a two-dimensional lattice gas consisting of two types of particles subject to Kawasaki dynamics at low temperature in a large finite box with an open boundary. Each pair of particles occupying neighboring sites has a negative binding energy provided their types are different, while each particle has a positive activation energy that depends on its type. There is no binding energy between neighboring particles of the same type. At the boundary of the box particles are created and annihilated in a way that represents the presence of an infinite gas reservoir. We start the dynamics from the empty box and compute the transition time to the full box. This transition is triggered by a emph{critical droplet} appearing somewhere in the box. We identify the region of parameters for which the system is metastable. For this region, in the limit as the temperature tends to zero, we show that the first entrance distribution on the set of critical droplets is uniform, compute the expected transition time up to a multiplicative factor that tends to one, and prove that the transition time divided by its expectation is exponentially distributed. These results are derived under emph{three hypotheses} on the energy landscape, which are verified in the second and the third paper for a certain subregion of the metastable region. These hypotheses involve three model-dependent quantities -- the energy, the shape and the number of the critical droplets -- which are identified in the second and the third paper as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.6069

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zbMATH Keywords

capacityKawasaki dynamicspotential theoryDirichlet formcritical dropletmetastable regionmetastable transition timemulti-type particle systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

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