Dipartimento di Matematica "G. Castelnuovo"
Università di Roma La Sapienza
Mercoledì 21 ottobre, ore 16:00, sala di Consiglio
Pietro Caputo (Università di Roma Tre)
Nonlinear exchange dynamics for spin systems.
Abstract.
We discuss a class of nonlinear exchange dynamics for interacting spin systems, inspired by Boltzmann-type equations from kinetic theory. These dynamics provide a nonlinear Monte Carlo approach for sampling Gibbs measures under prescribed magnetization or density constraints. We focus on the Ising and hard-core models and present convergence results showing exponential relaxation to equilibrium in the weak-interaction and low-density regimes, respectively, with optimal decay rates independent of the initial condition. The proofs are based on novel coupling techniques as well as ideas from the Kac program in kinetic theory, including uniform functional inequalities for the associated particle systems. We also discuss some possible algorithmic applications.