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Susana N Gomes1, Serafim Kalliadasis2, Grigorios A Pavliotis3
1Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We analyze a variant of the Desai-Zwanzig model [J. Stat. Phys. 19, 1 (1978)JSTPBS0022-471510.1007/BF01020331]. In particular, we study stationary states of the mean field limit for a system of weakly interacting diffusions moving in a multiwell potential energy landscape, coupled via a Curie-Weiss type (quadratic) interaction potential. The location and depth of the local minima of the potential are either deterministic or random. We characterize the structure and nature of bifurcations and phase transitions for this system, by means of extensive numerical simulations and of analytical calculations for an explicitly solvable model. Our numerical experiments are based on Monte Carlo simulations, the numerical solution of the time-dependent nonlinear Fokker-Planck (McKean-Vlasov) equation, the minimization of the free-energy functional, and a continuation algorithm for the stationary solutions.
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