Homogeneous nucleation for two-dimensional Kawasaki dynamics
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| author | Baldassarri, Simone Gaudillière, Alexandre Hollander, Frank den Nardi, Francesca Romana Olivieri, Enzo Scoppola, Elisabetta |
| author_facet | Baldassarri, Simone Gaudillière, Alexandre Hollander, Frank den Nardi, Francesca Romana Olivieri, Enzo Scoppola, Elisabetta |
| contents | This is the third in a series of three papers in which we study a lattice gas subject to Kawasaki dynamics at inverse temperature $β>0$ in a large finite box $Λ_β\subset \mathbb{Z}^2$ whose volume depends on $β$. Each pair of neighbouring particles has a negative binding energy $-U<0$, while each particle has a positive activation energy $Δ>0$. The initial configuration is drawn from the grand-canonical ensemble restricted to the set of configurations where all the droplets are subcritical. Our goal is to describe, in the metastable regime $Δ\in (U,2U)$ and in the limit as $β\to\infty$, how and when the system nucleates, i.e., creates a critical droplet somewhere in $Λ_β$ that subsequently grows by absorbing particles from the surrounding gas.
In the first paper we showed that subcritical droplets behave as quasi-random walks. In the second paper we used the results in the first paper to analyse how subcritical droplets form and dissolve on multiple space-time scales when the volume is moderately large, namely, $|Λ_β| = \mathrm{e}^{θβ}$ with $Δ< θ< 2Δ-U$. In the present paper we consider the setting where the volume is very large, namely, $|Λ_β| = \mathrm{e}^{Θβ}$ with $Θ< Γ-(2Δ-U)$, where $Γ$ is the energy of the critical droplet in the local model with fixed volume, and use the results in the first two papers to identify the nucleation time and the tube of typical trajectories towards nucleation. We will see that in a very large volume critical droplets appear more or less independently in boxes of moderate volume, a phenomenon referred to as homogeneous nucleation. One of the key ingredients in the proof is an estimate showing that no information can travel between these boxes on relevant time scales. |
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| spellingShingle | Homogeneous nucleation for two-dimensional Kawasaki dynamics Baldassarri, Simone Gaudillière, Alexandre Hollander, Frank den Nardi, Francesca Romana Olivieri, Enzo Scoppola, Elisabetta Probability Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics 60K35, 82C26, 82C27 This is the third in a series of three papers in which we study a lattice gas subject to Kawasaki dynamics at inverse temperature $β>0$ in a large finite box $Λ_β\subset \mathbb{Z}^2$ whose volume depends on $β$. Each pair of neighbouring particles has a negative binding energy $-U<0$, while each particle has a positive activation energy $Δ>0$. The initial configuration is drawn from the grand-canonical ensemble restricted to the set of configurations where all the droplets are subcritical. Our goal is to describe, in the metastable regime $Δ\in (U,2U)$ and in the limit as $β\to\infty$, how and when the system nucleates, i.e., creates a critical droplet somewhere in $Λ_β$ that subsequently grows by absorbing particles from the surrounding gas. In the first paper we showed that subcritical droplets behave as quasi-random walks. In the second paper we used the results in the first paper to analyse how subcritical droplets form and dissolve on multiple space-time scales when the volume is moderately large, namely, $|Λ_β| = \mathrm{e}^{θβ}$ with $Δ< θ< 2Δ-U$. In the present paper we consider the setting where the volume is very large, namely, $|Λ_β| = \mathrm{e}^{Θβ}$ with $Θ< Γ-(2Δ-U)$, where $Γ$ is the energy of the critical droplet in the local model with fixed volume, and use the results in the first two papers to identify the nucleation time and the tube of typical trajectories towards nucleation. We will see that in a very large volume critical droplets appear more or less independently in boxes of moderate volume, a phenomenon referred to as homogeneous nucleation. One of the key ingredients in the proof is an estimate showing that no information can travel between these boxes on relevant time scales. |
| title | Homogeneous nucleation for two-dimensional Kawasaki dynamics |
| topic | Probability Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics 60K35, 82C26, 82C27 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02099 |