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We study in this article the hydrodynamic limit in the macroscopic regime of the coupled system of stochastic differential equations, begin{equation} dlambda_t^i=frac{1}{sqrt{N}} dW_t^i - V(lambda_t^i) dt+ frac{beta}{2N} sum_{j ot=i} frac{dt}{lambda^i_t-lambda^j_t}, qquad i=1,ldots,N, end{equation} with $beta>1$, sometimes called generalized Dysons Brownian motion, describing the dissipative dynamics of a log-gas of $N$ equal charges with equilibrium measure corresponding to a $beta$-ensemble, with sufficiently regular convex potential $V$. The limit $Ntoinfty$ is known to satisfy a mean-field Mac-Kean-Vlasov equation. We prove that, for suitable initial conditions, fluctuations around the limit are Gaussian and satisfy an explicit PDE. The proof is very much indebted to the harmonic potential case treated in Israelsson cite{Isr}. Our key argument consists in showing that the time-evolution generator may be written in the form of a transport operator on the upper half-plane, plus a bounded non-local operator interpreted in terms of a signed jump process. As an essential technical argument ensuring the convergence of the above scheme, we give an $N$-independent large-deviation type estimate for the probability that $sup_{tin[0,T]}max_{i=1,ldots,N} |lambda_t^i|$ is large, based on a multi-scale argument and entropic bounds.
We consider the hydrodynamic limit in the macroscopic regime of the coupled system of stochastic differential equations, $ dlambda_t^i=frac{1}{sqrt{N}} dW_t^i - V(lambda_t^i) dt+ frac{beta}{2N} sum_{j ot=i} frac{dt}{lambda^i_t-lambda^j_t}, qquad i=1,ldots,N, $ with $beta>1$, sometimes called generalized Dysons Brownian motion, describing the dissipative dynamics of a log-gas of $N$ equal charges with equilibrium measure corresponding to a $beta$-ensemble, with sufficiently regular convex potential $V$. The limit $Ntoinfty$ is known to satisfy a mean-field Mc Kean-Vlasov equation. Fluctuations around this limit have been shown by the author to define a Gaussian process solving some explicit martingale problem written in terms of a generalized transport equation. We prove a series of results concerning either the Mc Kean-Vlasov equation for the density $rho_t$, notably regularity results and time-evolution of the support, or the associated hydrodynamic fluctuation process, whose space-time covariance kernel we compute explicitly.
We consider two models for directed polymers in space-time independent random media (the OConnell-Yor semi-discrete directed polymer and the continuum directed random polymer) at positive temperature and prove their KPZ universality via asymptotic analysis of exact Fredholm determinant formulas for the Laplace transform of their partition functions. In particular, we show that for large time tau, the probability distributions for the free energy fluctuations, when rescaled by tau^{1/3}, converges to the GUE Tracy-Widom distribution. We also consider the effect of boundary perturbations to the quenched random media on the limiting free energy statistics. For the semi-discrete directed polymer, when the drifts of a finite number of the Brownian motions forming the quenched random media are critically tuned, the statistics are instead governed by the limiting Baik-Ben Arous-Peche distributions from spiked random matrix theory. For the continuum polymer, the boundary perturbations correspond to choosing the initial data for the stochastic heat equation from a particular class, and likewise for its logarithm -- the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation. The Laplace transform formula we prove can be inverted to give the one-point probability distribution of the solution to these stochastic PDEs for the class of initial data.
The mixing time of Markovian dissipative evolutions of open quantum many-body systems can be bounded using optimal constants of certain quantum functional inequalities, such as the modified logarithmic Sobolev constant. For classical spin systems, the positivity of such constants follows from a mixing condition for the Gibbs measure, via quasi-factorization results for the entropy. Inspired by the classical case, we present a strategy to derive the positivity of the modified logarithmic Sobolev constant associated to the dynamics of certain quantum systems from some clustering conditions on the Gibbs state of a local, commuting Hamiltonian. In particular we show that for the heat-bath dynamics for 1D systems, the modified logarithmic Sobolev constant is positive under the assumptions of a mixing condition on the Gibbs state and a strong quasi-factorization of the relative entropy.
We study the collisional processes that can lead to thermalization in one-dimensional systems. For two body collisions excitations of transverse modes are the prerequisite for energy exchange and thermalzation. At very low temperatures excitations of transverse modes are exponentially suppressed, thermalization by two body collisions stops and the system should become integrable. In quantum mechanics virtual excitations of higher radial modes are possible. These virtually excited radial modes give rise to effective three-body velocity-changing collisions which lead to thermalization. We show that these three-body elastic interactions are suppressed by pairwise quantum correlations when approaching the strongly correlated regime. If the relative momentum $k$ is small compared to the two-body coupling constant $c$ the three-particle scattering state is suppressed by a factor of $(k/c)^{12}$, which is proportional to $gamma ^{12}$, that is to the square of the three-body correlation function at zero distance in the limit of the Lieb-Liniger parameter $gamma gg 1$. This demonstrates that in one dimensional quantum systems it is not the freeze-out of two body collisions but the strong quantum correlations which ensures absence of thermalization on experimentally relevant time scales.
We investigate the 1D interacting two-component Fermi gas with arbitrary polarization. Exact results for the ground state energy, quasimomentum distribution functions, spin velocity and charge velocity reveal subtle polarization dependent quantum effects.