Math Courses

Probability and Statistical Mechanics. Part 3: Some introductory topics in statistical mechanics

by Prof. Alessia Nota (GSSI), Lu Xu, Stefano Olla (GSSI)

Europe/Rome
Description

Course Schedule

      Mon                        Tue                          Wed                  Thu                  Fri

                                                                                    9/1 10.30-12.30   10/1 10.30-12.30

                                                                                                                        14:30-16:30

13/1 8.30-10.30      14/1 10.30-12.30

        14:30-16:30

20/1 8.30-10.30      21/1 10.30-12.30

        14:30-16:30

27/1 8.30-10.30      28/1 10.30-12.30                         30/1 8.30-10.30

February: 10 hours discussion

 

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Topic 1 (Alessia Nota, Jan. 9 to 10)

 

Topic 2 (Stefano Olla, Jan. 13 to 21)

 

Topic 3: Hydrodynamics for asymmetric simple exclusion (Lu Xu, Jan. 27 to 30)

 

Abstract

As a typical example of asymmetric attractive system, we study a nearest-neighbour simple exclusion process on periodic lattice with asymmetric jump probability. Different from the symmetric one, nontrivial evolution of the particle density can be observed under the hyperbolic space-time scale, following a quasi-linear conservation law. The key ingredient is an entropy inequality at microscopic level based on the attractiveness.

 

References

[1] Claude Kipnis, Claudio Landim: Scaling Limits of Interacting Particle Systems (Chapter 8. Hydrodynamic limit of asymmetric attractive processes).

[2] Josef Marek, etc.: Weak and Measure-valued Solutions to Evolutionary PDEs (Chapter 2. Scalar conservation laws).

[3] Fraydoun Rezakhanlou: Hydrodynamic limit for attractive particle systems on Z^d. Comm. Math. Phys. 140 417--448, 1991.

[4] Jozsef Fritz: Entropy pairs and compensated compactness for weakly asymmetric systems. Advanced Stuies in Pure Mathematics 39: Stochastic Analysis on Large Scale Interactive Systems, 143--171, 2004.