An introduction to metastability through random walks

DOI10.1214/09-BJPS035zbMATH Open1200.82042MaRDI QIDQ985994FDOQ985994

E. Scoppola, E. Olivieri

Publication date: 9 August 2010

Published in: Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsMarkov chainsMonte Carlo methodphase transitionsrandom walksKawasaki dynamicsmetastabilityGlauber dynamicsIsing modelssmall random perturbationsWentzell-Freidlin limit theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

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