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Phase transition for continuum Widom-Rowlinson model with random radii

Probability 2018-11-14 v3

Abstract

In this paper we study the phase transition of continuum Widom-Rowlinson measures in Rd\mathbb{R}^d with qq types of particles and random radii. Each particle xix_i of type ii is marked by a random radius rir_i distributed by a probability measure QiQ_i on R+\mathbb{R}^+. The particles of same type do not interact each other whereas particles xix_i and xjx_j with different type iji \neq j interact via an exclusion hardcore interaction forcing ri+rjr_i+r_j to be smaller than xixj|x_i-x_j|. In the integrable case (i.e. rdQi(dr)<+\int r^d Q_i(dr)<+\infty, 1iq1\le i\le q), we show that the Widom-Rowlinson measures exhibit a standard phase transition providing uniqueness, when the activity is small, and co-existence of qq ordered phases, when the activity is large. In the non-integrable case (i.e. rdQi(dr)=+\int r^d Q_i(dr)=+\infty, 1iq1\le i \le q), we show another type of phase transition. We prove, when the activity is small, the existence of at least q+1q+1 extremal phases and we conjecture that, when the activity is large, only the qq ordered phases subsist. We prove a weak version of this conjecture by showing that the symmetric Widom-Rowlinson measure with free boundary condition is a mixing of the qq ordered phases if and only if the activity is large.

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@article{arxiv.1712.01729,
  title  = {Phase transition for continuum Widom-Rowlinson model with random radii},
  author = {David Dereudre and Pierre Houdebert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01729},
  year   = {2018}
}

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