Introduction to Condensation in the Zero Range Process (ZRP) and My Research

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

Introduction to Condensation in the Zero Range Process (ZRP) and My Research

  • Event time: 11:30am
  • Event date: 5th March 2014
  • Speaker: Justin Whitehouse (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

I will give an introduction to the ZRP and its factorised steady state. Then I will (attempt) to show the condition for condensation in the ZRP. Finally, if time permits, I will talk about the condensation transition in a related model that I have been researching over the last year. This condensate is interesting/unusual in that it travels through the system and contains effectively all of the system's mass.