Unique minimizer for a random functional with double-well potential in dimension 1 and 2

DOI10.4310/CMS.2011.V9.N2.A1MaRDI QIDQ548441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Dirr, Enza Orlandi

Publication date 28 June 2011

Published in Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4503, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cms/1305034458

zbMATH Keywords

phase segregation in disordered materialsrandom functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Homogenization in equilibrium problems of solid mechanics (74Q05) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Random materials and composite materials (74A40)

Abstract: We add a random bulk term, modelling the interaction with the impurities of the medium, to a standard functional in the gradient theory of phase transitions consisting of a gradient term with a double well potential. We show that in $dle2$ there exists, for almost all the realizations of the random bulk term, a unique random macroscopic minimizer. This result is in sharp contrast to the case when the random bulk term is absent. In the latter case there are two minimizers which are (in law) invariant under translations in space.

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