Shock profiles for the asymmetric simple exclusion process in one dimension
Shock profiles for the asymmetric simple exclusion process in one dimension
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DOI:
10.1007/bf02770758
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发表时间:
1997-07
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
B. Derrida;J. Lebowitz;E. Speer;E. Speer
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作者:
B. Derrida;J. Lebowitz;E. Speer;E. Speer
The asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) on a one-dimensional lattice is a system of particles which jump at ratespand 1-p(herep> 1/2) to adjacent empty sites on their right and left respectively. The system is described on suitable macroscopic spatial and temporal scales by the inviscid Burgers’ equation; the latter has shock solutions with a discontinuous jump from left density ρ-to right density ρ+, ρ-< ρ +, which travel with velocity (2p−1 )(1−ρ+−p−). In the microscopic system we may track the shock position by introducing a second class particle, which is attracted to and travels with the shock. In this paper we obtain the time-invariant measure for this shock solution in the ASEP, as seen from such a particle. The mean density at lattice siten, measured from this particle, approachesp±at an exponential rate asn→±∞, witha characteristic lengthwhich becomes independent ofpwhen. For a special value of the asymmetry, given byp/(1−p)=p+(1−p−)/p−(1−p+), the measure is Bernoulli, with densityρ−on the left andp+on the right. In the weakly asymmetric limit, 2p−1 → 0, the microscopic width of the shock diverges as (2p+1)-1. The stationary measure is then essentially a superposition of Bernoulli measures, corresponding to a convolution of a density profile described by the viscous Burgers equation with a well-defined distribution for the location of the second class particle.