Ideal mixture approximation of cluster size distributions at low density

DOI10.1007/S10955-012-0499-5MaRDI QIDQ438822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sabine Jansen, W. König

Publication date 31 July 2012

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4725

zbMATH Keywords

canonical ensembleclassical particle systemdilute systemequilibrium statistical mechanicslarge deviations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: We consider an interacting particle system in continuous configuration space. The pair interaction has an attractive part. We show that, at low density, the system behaves approximately like an ideal mixture of clusters (droplets): we prove rigorous bounds (a) for the constrained free energy associated with a given cluster size distribution, considered as an order parameter, (b) for the free energy, obtained by minimising over the order parameter, and (c) for the minimising cluster size distributions. It is known that, under suitable assumptions, the ideal mixture has a transition from a gas phase to a condensed phase as the density is varied; our bounds hold both in the gas phase and in the coexistence region of the ideal mixture. The present paper improves our earlier results by taking into account the mixing entropy.

Review text

Interacting particle systems in a continuous configuration space are investigated. Usually an interacting particle gas is treated as an approximately ideal mixture of droplets. This droplet picture has been used in many different investigations and is quite common -- all existing results work in the grand-canonical ensemble at sufficiently negative values of the chemical potential, for which one expects that all droplets are finite. In this article, this droplet picture is considered rigorously, and this allows to obtain results that hold also in a regime where there might be infinite clusters. The authors consider free energies, the constrained energies with fixed cluster size distributions and the optimal distribution itself, and derive bounds for the deviation from the ideal model. These bounds decay exponentially fast as a function of the inverse temperature at low densities, respectively they decay as a power of the density.

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