Séminaire de Probabilités commun ICJ/UMPA

Metastability of condensing zero range processes

par Claudio Landim (IMPA)

Europe/Paris
salle 435 (UMPA)

salle 435

UMPA

Description
We consider a zero range process evolving on a fixed and finite set. For a family of jump rates, the stationary state gives a probability close to 1, as the total number of particles increases to infinity, to configurations in which almost all particles sit on a single site, a phenomenon called condensation. We investigate the evolution of the condensate and the formation of the condensate.