A bottom-up approach to fluctuating hydrodynamics: Coarse-graining of stochastic lattice gases and the Dean-Kawasaki equation

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Autores principales: Saha, Soumyabrata, Jangid, Sandeep, de Pirey, Thibaut Arnoulx, Klamser, Juliane U., Sadhu, Tridib
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author Saha, Soumyabrata
Jangid, Sandeep
de Pirey, Thibaut Arnoulx
Klamser, Juliane U.
Sadhu, Tridib
author_facet Saha, Soumyabrata
Jangid, Sandeep
de Pirey, Thibaut Arnoulx
Klamser, Juliane U.
Sadhu, Tridib
contents Fluctuating hydrodynamics provides a quantitative, large-scale description of many-body systems in terms of smooth variables, with microscopic details entering only through a small set of transport coefficients. Although this framework has been highly successful in characterizing macroscopic fluctuations and correlations, a systematic derivation of fluctuating hydrodynamics from underlying stochastic microscopic dynamics remains obscure for broad classes of interacting systems. For stochastic lattice gas models with gradient dynamics and a single conserved density, we develop a path-integral based coarse-graining procedure that recovers fluctuating hydrodynamics in a controlled manner. Our analysis highlights the essential role of local-equilibrium averages, which go beyond naïve mean-field-type gradient expansions. We further extend this approach to interacting Brownian particles by coarse-graining the Dean-Kawasaki equation, revealing a mobility proportional to the density and a diffusivity determined by the thermodynamic pressure.
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spellingShingle A bottom-up approach to fluctuating hydrodynamics: Coarse-graining of stochastic lattice gases and the Dean-Kawasaki equation
Saha, Soumyabrata
Jangid, Sandeep
de Pirey, Thibaut Arnoulx
Klamser, Juliane U.
Sadhu, Tridib
Statistical Mechanics
Soft Condensed Matter
Mathematical Physics
Fluctuating hydrodynamics provides a quantitative, large-scale description of many-body systems in terms of smooth variables, with microscopic details entering only through a small set of transport coefficients. Although this framework has been highly successful in characterizing macroscopic fluctuations and correlations, a systematic derivation of fluctuating hydrodynamics from underlying stochastic microscopic dynamics remains obscure for broad classes of interacting systems. For stochastic lattice gas models with gradient dynamics and a single conserved density, we develop a path-integral based coarse-graining procedure that recovers fluctuating hydrodynamics in a controlled manner. Our analysis highlights the essential role of local-equilibrium averages, which go beyond naïve mean-field-type gradient expansions. We further extend this approach to interacting Brownian particles by coarse-graining the Dean-Kawasaki equation, revealing a mobility proportional to the density and a diffusivity determined by the thermodynamic pressure.
title A bottom-up approach to fluctuating hydrodynamics: Coarse-graining of stochastic lattice gases and the Dean-Kawasaki equation
topic Statistical Mechanics
Soft Condensed Matter
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02319