Boltzmann distribution of free energies in a finite-connectivity spin-glass system and the cavity approach

At sufficiently low temperatures, the configurational phase space of a large spin-glass system breaks into many separated domains, each of which is referred to as a macroscopic state. The system is able to visit all spin configurations of the same macroscopic state, while it can not spontaneously jump between two different macroscopic states. Ergodicity of the whole configurational phase space of the system, however, can be recovered if a temperature-annealing process is repeated an infinite number of times. In a heating-annealing cycle, the environmental temperature is first elevated to a high level and then decreased extremely slowly until a final low temperature T is reached. Different macroscopic states may be reached in different rounds of the annealing experiment; while the probability of finding the system in macroscopic state α decreases exponentially with the free energy F _α (T) of this state. For finite-connectivity spin glass systems, we use this free energy Boltzmann distribution to formulate the cavity approach of Mézard and Parisi [Eur. Phys. J. B, 2001, 20: 217] in a slightly different form. For the ±J spin-glass model on a random regular graph of degree K = 6, the predictions of the present work agree with earlier simulational and theoretical results.      

Large Deviations and Ergodicity for Spin Particle Systems

In this paper we investigate the large deviation principle (LDP) for spin particle systems with possibly vanishing flip rates. The situation turns out to be much more complicated if the flip rates are allowed to be zero than the one considered by Dai, where the systems are assumed to have strictly positive flip rates. The upper and lower large-deviation bounds are studied, respectively. The two governing rate functions are compared and a variational principle is given. We then apply the results to obtain some new large-deviation estimates for the occupation times of attractive systems. In particular, we prove a strong form of exponential convergence for ergodic systems.     

Shocks and Excitation Dynamics in a Driven Diffusive Two-Channel System

We consider classical hard-core particles hopping stochastically on two parallel chains in the same or opposite directions with an inter- and intra-chain interaction. We discuss general questions concerning elementary excitations in these systems, shocks and rarefaction waves. From microscopical considerations we derive the collective velocities and shock stability conditions. The findings are confirmed by comparison to Monte Carlo data of a multi-parameter class of simple two lane driven diffusion models, which have the stationary state of a product form on a ring. Going to the hydrodynamic limit, we point out the analogy of our results to the ones known in the theory of differential equations of two conservation laws. We discuss the singularity problem and find a dissipative term that selects the physical solution.     

Breather Dynamics of the Sine-Gordon Equation

This paper studies the adiabatic dynamics of the breather soliton of the sine-Gordon equation. The integrals of motion are found and then used in soliton perturbation theory to derive the differential equation governing the soliton velocity. Time-dependent functions arise and their properties are studied. These functions are found to be bounded and periodic and affect the soliton velocity. The soliton velocity is numerically plotted against time for different combinations of initial velocities and perturbation terms.     

Free Transport Limit for <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-particles Dynamics with Singular and Short Range Potential

We study the limit of systems of interacting particles, when the number of particle becomes very large. The support of the interaction vanishes as the number of particles goes to infinity, so that the natural limit is just free transport, but no limitation is assumed about the strength of the interaction. We obtain explicit estimates for the number of particles effectively interacting and describe the way they do it.     

Information Loss in Coarse-Graining of Stochastic Particle Dynamics

Recently a new class of approximating coarse-grained stochastic processes and associated Monte Carlo algorithms were derived directly from microscopic stochastic lattice models for the adsorption/desorption and diffusion of interacting particles^(12,13,15). The resulting hierarchy of stochastic processes is ordered by the level of coarsening in the space/time dimensions and describes mesoscopic scales while retaining a significant amount of microscopic detail on intermolecular forces and particle fluctuations. Here we rigorously compute in terms of specific relative entropy the information loss between non-equilibrium exact and approximating coarse-grained adsorption/desorption lattice dynamics. Our result is an error estimate analogous to rigorous error estimates for finite element/finite difference approximations of Partial Differential Equations. We prove this error to be small as long as the level of coarsening is small compared to the range of interaction of the microscopic model. This result gives a first mathematical reasoning for the parameter regimes for which approximating coarse-grained Monte Carlo algorithms are expected to give errors within a given tolerance. MSC (2000) subject classifications: 82C80; 60J22; 94A17     

An Extension of Algorithm on Symbolic Computations of Conserved Densities for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Systems

An improved algorithm for symbolic computations of polynomial-type conservation laws （PCLaws） of a general polynomial nonlinear system is presented. The algorithm is implemented in Maple and can be successfully used for high-dimensional models. Furthermore, the algorithm discards the restriction to evolution equations. The program can also be used to determine the preferences for a given parameterized nonlinear systems. The code is tested on several known nonlinear equations from the soliton theory.     

An Extension of Algorithm on Symbolic Computations of Conserved Densities for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Systems

An improved algorithm for symbolic computations of polynomial-type conservation laws (PCLaws) of a general polynomial nonlinear system is presented. The algorithm is implemented in Maple and can be successfully used for high-dimensional models. Furthermore, the algorithm discards the restriction to evolution equations. The program can also be used to determine the preferences for a given parameterized nonlinear systems. The code is tested on several known nonlinear equations from the soliton theory.     

A Maple Package on Symbolic Computation of Conserved Densities for （1＋l）-Dimensional Nonlinear Evolution Systems

A new algorithm for symbolic computation of polynomial-type conserved densities for nonlinear evolution systems is presented. The algorithm is implemented in Maple. The improved algorithm is more efficient not only in removing the redundant terms of the general form of the conserved densities but also in solving the conserved densities with the associated flux synchronously without using Euler operator. Furthermore, the program conslaw. mpl can be used to determine the preferences for a given parameterized nonlinear evolution systems. The code is tested on several well-known nonlinear evolution equations from the soliton theory.     

Statistical mechanics of a dynamical system based on Conway's game of Life

We study a discrete dynamical system whose evolution is governed by rules similar to those of Conway's game of Life but also include a stochastic element (parametrized by a temperature). Statistical properties that are examined are density as a function of temperature and entropy (suitably defined). A phase transition and a certain thermodynamic constant of the motion are observed.Lady Davis Visiting Scientist at the Technion 1974–75.     

Distribution of Equilibrium Free Energies in a Thermodynamic System with Broken Ergodicity

At low temperatures the configurational phase space of a macroscopic complex system （e.g., a spin-glass） of N - 10^23 interacting particles may split into an exponential number Ωs - exp（const × N） of ergodic sub-spaces （thermodynamic states）. It is usually assumed that the equilibrium collective behavior of such a system is determined by its ground thermodynamic states of the minimal free-energy density, and that the equilibrium free energies follow the distribution of exponentied decay. But actually for some complex systems, the equilibrium free-energy values may follow a Gaussian distribution within an intermediate temperature range, and consequently their equilibrium properties are contributed by excited thermodynamic states. Based on this analysis, the re-weighting parameter y in the cavity approach of spin-glasses is easily understood. Depending on the free-energy distribution, the optimal y can either be equal to or be strictly less than the inverse temperature β.     

The structure of dissipative viscous system of conservation laws

We revisit the structure of viscous systems of conservation laws that are entropy-dissipative. We prove that the dissipated quantities are spatial derivatives of certain nonlinear coordinates that are defined only in terms of the entropy and of the linear, non-dissipated, coordinates.     

Equilibrium Pure States and Nonequilibrium Chaos

We consider nonequilibrium systems such as the Edwards–Anderson Ising spin glass at a temperature where, in equilibrium, there are presumed to be (two or many) broken-symmetry pure states. Following a deep quench, we argue that as time t, although the system is usually in some pure state locally, either it never settles permanently on a fixed length scale into a single pure state, or it does, but then the pure state depends on both the initial spin configuration and the realization of the stochastic dynamics. But this latter case can occur only if there exists an uncountable number of pure states (for each coupling realization) with almost every pair having zero overlap. In both cases, almost no initial spin configuration is in the basin of attraction of a single pure state; that is, the configuration space (resulting from a deep quench) is all boundary (except for a set of measure zero). We prove that the former case holds for deeply quenched 2D ferromagnets. Our results raise the possibility that even if more than one pure state exists for an infinite system, time averages do not necessarily disagree with Boltzmann averages.     

Tensor fields defined by Lax representations

In this paper, some properties of tensor fields constructed by the Lax representation of chiral-type systems are investigated.     

少体硬球系统的动力学与统计研究

研究了少数几个封闭于箱子中的硬球组成的系统的动力学与统计行为.着重研究单粒子位形 空间的碰撞分布.计算表明，硬球的半径较小时，单粒子统计分布函数在空间主要是均匀分 布；随着半径的增大，均匀分布部分逐渐减小.当硬球半径与箱子尺寸比值超过临界值时， 单粒子分布函数呈现双峰形式.还利用少体硬球系统模拟布朗运动.研究表明，当硬球系统作 为介质时，系统不存在扩散过程；发现大粒子的平均平方位移与时间是平方关系，说明大粒 子在硬球介质中的输运是弹道输运过程. 关键词： 硬球 动力学 布朗运动 遍历     

Ergodicity in computer simulation of quantum dissipative processes

The ergodicity principle in quantum theory is employed for elaboration of a new quantum trajectory technique which is used for numerical simulation of quantum dissipative systems. With this purpose the density matrix of a quantum system is represented as a sum over an ensemble of quantum states in time intervals. The method is employed for computations of a quantum anharmonic oscillator.     

Onsager Relations and Eulerian Hydrodynamic Limit for Systems with Several Conservation Laws

We present the derivation of the hydrodynamic limit under Eulerian scaling for a general class of one-dimensional interacting particle systems with two or more conservation laws. Following Yau's relative entropy method it turns out that in case of more than one conservation laws, in order that the system exhibit hydrodynamic behaviour, some particular identities reminiscent of Onsager's reciprocity relations must hold. We check validity of these identities whenever a stationary measure with product structure exists. It also follows that, as a general rule, the equilibrium thermodynamic entropy (as function of the densities of the conserved variables) is a globally convex Lax entropy of the hyperbolic systems of conservation laws arising as hydrodynamic limit. As concrete examples we also present a number of models modeling deposition (or domain growth) phenomena. The Onsager relations arising in the context of hydrodynamic limits under hyperbolic scaling seem to be novel. The fact that equilibrium thermodynamic entropy is Lax entropy for the arising Euler equations was noticed earlier in the context of Hamiltonian systems with weak noise, see ref. 7.     

Dynamics of fluctuations in a reactive system of low spatial dimension

We study, using master equation techniques, the time evolution of the average concentration and fluctuations in the two-speciesn-molecule reactionA+(n-1)XnX in one dimension described by a Glauber-type dynamical lattice model for the specific casesn=2 (bimolecular) andn=3 (trimolecular). The evolution is found to be quite different from that described by the Mean-Field equations even for the bimolecular case, where the steady state is meanfield. For the trimolecular process, the values of fluctuation correlations in the nonequilibrium steady state are well predicted by the fixed points of the dynamical equations obtained from the master equation. In addition, three-point fluctuation correlations are found to play an important role in both processes and are accounted for by an extended Bethe-type ansatz. The bimolecular system shows no memory effects of initial conditions, while the trimolecular system is characterized by memory effects in terms of the average concentration, fluctuations as well as the entropy. The spatial decay of fluctuation correlations is found to be short range at the steady state for the trimolecular system.     

Deposition of endohedral fullerenes from a laser evaporation cluster source

Mass spectra of fullerenes doped with transition and rare earth metals (Sc, Y, La, Ce, Gd) reveal a variety of singly and doubly doped metallofullerenes. Characteristic oscillations of the relative mass intensities of the La- and Y-metallofullerenes suggest the existence of two different isomers of the corresponding doubly doped fullerenes. The yield of the plasma-generated clusters is sufficient to be used for an in situ deposition of mass-selected metallofullerenes onto a surface. In particular, endohedral fullerenes with 60 or less atoms are accessible for deposition by means of a laser vaporization cluster source. Scanning tunneling microscopy has been used to image Ce@C₆₀ and La@C₆₀ on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite. Received: 24 May 2000 / Accepted: 6 November 2000 / Published online: 9 February 2001