Kawasaki dynamics with two types of particles: stable/metastable configurations and communication heights

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0370-0zbMATH Open1231.82019arXiv1105.5291OpenAlexW1504596485MaRDI QIDQ658498FDOQ658498

Authors: F. den Hollander, Francesca Romana Nardi, Alessio Troiani 

Publication date: 12 January 2012

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

Abstract: This is the second 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 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 are interested in the transition time to the full box. This transition is triggered by a critical droplet appearing somewhere in the box. In the first paper we identified the parameter range for which the system is metastable, showed that the first entrance distribution on the set of critical droplets is uniform, computed the expected transition time up to and including a multiplicative factor of order one, and proved that the nucleation time divided by its expectation is exponentially distributed, all in the limit of low temperature. These results were proved under three hypotheses, and involve three model-dependent quantities: the energy, the shape and the number of critical droplets. In this second paper we prove the first and the second hypothesis and identify the energy of critical droplets. The paper deals with understanding the geometric properties of subcritical, critical and supercritical droplets, which are crucial in determining the metastable behavior of the system. The geometry turns out to be considerably more complex than for Kawasaki dynamics with one type of particle, for which an extensive literature exists. The main motivation behind our work is to understand metastability of multi- type particle systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5291

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zbMATH Keywords

Kawasaki dynamicsmetastabilitypolyominoescritical configurationsdiscrete isoperimetric inequalitiesmulti-type particle systemslattice gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

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• Metastability for Kawasaki dynamics on the hexagonal lattice
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