Polymer dynamics in the depinned phase: metastability with logarithmic barriers

DOI10.1007/S00440-011-0355-6zbMATH Open1262.60093arXiv1007.4470OpenAlexW3098451739MaRDI QIDQ714951FDOQ714951

François Simenhaus, Hubert Lacoin, Pietro Caputo, Fabio Martinelli, Fabio Lucio Toninelli

Publication date: 12 October 2012

Published in: Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the stochastic evolution of a (1 + 1)-dimensional polymer in the depinned regime. At equilibrium the system exhibits a double well structure: the polymer lies(essentially) either above or below the repulsive line. As a consequence one expects a metastable behavior with rare jumps between the two phases combined with a fast thermalization inside each phase. However the energy barrier between these two phases is only logarithmic in the system size L and therefore the two relevant time scales are only polynomial in L with no clear-cut separation between them. The whole evolution is governed by a subtle competition between the diffusive behavior inside one phase and the jumps across the energy barriers. In particular the usual scenario in which the tunneling time coincides with the exponential of the energy barrier breaks down. Our main results are: (i) a proof that the mixing time of the system lies between L^{5/2} and L^{5/2+2}; (ii) the identification of two regions associated with the positive and negative phase of the polymer together with the proof of the asymptotic exponentiality of the tunneling time between them with rate equal to a half of the spectral gap.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4470

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zbMATH Keywords

metastabilityquasi-stationary distributionreversible Markov processespolymer pinning model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

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