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Dynamic condensates in aggregation processes with mass injection

Statistical Mechanics 2023-11-27 v2

Abstract

The Takayasu aggregation model is a paradigmatic model of aggregation with mass injection, known to exhibit a power law distribution of mass over a range which grows in time. Working in one dimension we find that the mass profile in addition shows distinctive {\it dynamic condensates} which collectively hold a substantial portion of the mass (approximately 80%80\% when injection and diffusion rates are equal) and lead to a substantial hump in the scaled distribution. To track these, we monitor the largest mass within a growing coarsening length. An interesting outcome of extremal statistics is that the mean of the globally largest mass in a finite system grows as a power law in time, modulated by strong multiplicative logarithms in both time and system size. At very long times in a finite system, the state consists of a power-law-distributed background with a condensate whose mass increases linearly with time.

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@article{arxiv.2307.16310,
  title  = {Dynamic condensates in aggregation processes with mass injection},
  author = {Arghya Das and Mustansir Barma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.16310},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

20 pages, 8 figures; To appear in the Indian Journal of Physics in the special issue 'Statistical Physics and Complex Systems'

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