$L^2$ convergence rates for singular stochastic wave dynamics

Source abstract

We establish quantitative hypocoercivity for singular stochastic damped wave equations arising in stochastic quantization. Building on the finite-dimensional argument of Cao, Lu, and Wang [Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 2023], we derive a dimension-free criterion that replaces uniform semiconvexity by a log-Sobolev inequality together with exponential lower-tail bounds for the bottom of the Hessian spectrum. We verify this criterion for the two-dimensional $Φ^4_2$ and sine-Gordon models and for the three-dimensional $Φ^4_3$ model, through estimates on the lowest eigenvalue of associated singular random Schrödinger operators. Combined with the continuum limit established in a companion paper, this yields exponential $L^2$ convergence to equilibrium for the $Φ^4_2$ dynamics and for sine-Gordon with $β^2<2π$. For $Φ^4_2$, we verify that in a weak-coupling, small-mass regime, optimizing the damping yields a kinetic relaxation rate of at least order $m$. This yields a genuine acceleration over the order-$m^2$ relaxation rate of the overdamped dynamics. The lattice estimates are uniform in the discretization for sine-Gordon throughout $β^2<4π$, and for $Φ^4_3$ at fixed volume, including regimes beyond those for which the continuum dynamics is vpresently constructed.