Fick's law in non-local evolution equations

DOI10.1063/1.5009752zbMATH Open1391.82033arXiv1710.04410OpenAlexW2762809644WikidataQ129762250 ScholiaQ129762250MaRDI QIDQ4565460FDOQ4565460

Authors: Roberto Boccagna 

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the stationary non-local equation which corresponds to the energy functional of a one-dimensional Ising spin system, in which particles interact via a Kac potential. The boundary conditions share the same sign and both lie above the value $$, which divides the metastable region from the unstable one, the inverse temperature being fixed and larger than the critical value $$. Due to the non-equilibrium setting, a non zero magnetization current, which scales with the inverse of the size of the volume $varepsilo{n}^{-1}$, do flow in the system. Here $varepsilo{n}^{-1}$ also represents the ratio of macroscopic and mesoscopic length. We show that for $varepsilon>0$ small enough, the stationary profile has no discontinuities so that no phase transition occurs; although expected when the magnetizations are larger than $$, this turns out to be non trivial at all in the metastable region. Moreover, when $varepsilo{n}^{-1}oinfty$, the solution converges to that of the corresponding macroscopic problem, i.e. the local diffusion equation. The validity of the Fick's law in this context is then established.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04410

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Stefan problems, phase changes, etc. (80A22) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer (35Q79) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

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