Locating the minimum : Approach to equilibrium in a disordered, symmetric zero range process

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2001-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112113v1

Pramana-J. Phys. 58, 409 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Revtex, 7 pages including 3 figures. Submitted to Pramana -- special issue on mesoscopic and disordered systems

Scientific paper

10.1007/s12043-002-0024-y

We consider the dynamics of the disordered, one-dimensional, symmetric zero range process in which a particle from an occupied site $k$ hops to its nearest neighbour with a quenched rate $w(k)$. These rates are chosen randomly from the probability distribution $f(w) \sim (w-c)^{n}$, where $c$ is the lower cutoff. For $n > 0$, this model is known to exhibit a phase transition in the steady state from a low density phase with a finite number of particles at each site to a high density aggregate phase in which the site with the lowest hopping rate supports an infinite number of particles. In the latter case, it is interesting to ask how the system locates the site with globally minimum rate. We use an argument based on local equilibrium, supported by Monte Carlo simulations, to describe the approach to the steady state. We find that at large enough time, the mass transport in the regions with a smooth density profile is described by a diffusion equation with site-dependent rates, while the isolated points where the mass distribution is singular act as the boundaries of these regions. Our argument implies that the relaxation time scales with the system size $L$ as $L^{z}$ with $z=2+1/(n+1)$ for $n > 1$ and suggests a different behaviour for $n < 1$.

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