Metastability and time scales for parabolic equations with drift 1: the first time scale

C Landim, J Lee, I Seo - Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 2024 - Springer
Consider the elliptic operator given by 0.1 L ε f= b·∇ f+ ε Δ f for some smooth vector field b: R
d→ R d and a small parameter ε> 0. Consider the initial-valued problem 0.2∂ tu ε= L ε u ε, u …

Condensation and metastable behavior of non-reversible inclusion processes

S Kim, I Seo - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2021 - Springer
In this article, we perform quantitative analyses of metastable behavior of an interacting
particle system known as the inclusion process. For inclusion processes, it is widely …

A resolvent approach to metastability

C Landim, D Marcondes, I Seo - Journal of the European Mathematical …, 2023 - ems.press
We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the metastability of a Markov chain,
expressed in terms of a property of the solutions of the resolvent equation. As an application …

Hierarchical structure of metastability in the reversible inclusion process: third time scale and complete characterization

S Kim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.13842, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this article, we study the hierarchical structure of metastability in the reversible inclusion
process. We fully characterize the third time scale of metastability subject to any underlying …

Non-reversible metastable diffusions with Gibbs invariant measure I: Eyring–Kramers formula

J Lee, I Seo - Probability Theory and Related Fields, 2022 - Springer
In this article, we prove the Eyring–Kramers formula for non-reversible metastable diffusion
processes that have a Gibbs invariant measure. Our result indicates that non-reversible …

Metastability from the large deviations point of view: A Γ-expansion of the level two large deviations rate functional of non-reversible finite-state Markov chains

C Landim - Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Consider a sequence of continuous-time Markov chains (X t (n): t≥ 0) evolving on a fixed
finite state space V. Let I n be the level two large deviations rate functional for X t (n), as …

Metastable -expansion of finite state Markov chains level two large deviations rate functions

L Bertini, D Gabrielli, C Landim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02588, 2022 - arxiv.org
We examine two analytical characterisation of the metastable behavior of a Markov chain.
The first one expressed in terms of its transition probabilities, and the second one in terms of …

Approximation method to metastability: an application to non-reversible, two-dimensional Ising and Potts models without external fields

S Kim, I Seo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13746, 2022 - arxiv.org
The main contribution of the current study is two-fold. First, we investigate the energy
landscape of the Ising and Potts models on finite two-dimensional lattices without external …

Metastability of Blume–Capel model with zero chemical potential and zero external field

S Kim - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2021 - Springer
In this study, we investigate the metastable behavior of Metropolis-type Glauber dynamics
associated with the Blume–Capel model with zero chemical potential and zero external field …

Energy landscape and metastability of stochastic Ising and Potts models on three-dimensional lattices without external fields

S Kim, I Seo - Electronic Journal of Probability, 2024 - projecteuclid.org
In this study, we investigate the energy landscape of the Ising and Potts models on fixed and
finite but large three-dimensional (3D) lattices where no external field exists and …