On the two species asymmetric exclusion process with semi-permeable boundaries (Q833363)

The investigations about the structure of nonequilibrium stationary state of a system are given. Basing on \textit{C. Arita}'s papers [Exact analysis of two-species totally asymmetric exclusion process with open boundary conditions. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 75, 065003 (2006; doi:10.1143/JPSJ.75.065003); Phase transitions in the two-species totally asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries. J. Stat. Mech. P12008 (2006; doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2006/12/P12008)], where using a matrix ansatz, a nonequilibrium stationary state of the widely studied one-dimensional totally asymmetric exclusion process was given. The authors present a discussion about first and second class particles. The used model is defined on a subset of the one dimensional lattice consisting of \(L\) sites. Each site \(i\), \(i=1,\ldots,L\) can be occupied by first or second class particles or can be vacant (vacant sites are also referred to as holes). The first class particles can enter at site 1, when it is vacant with a rate \(\alpha\) and exit from site \(L\) with a rate \(\beta\), while the second class particles can neither enter nor leave the system. In Sect. 2 the authors discuss the matrix method for the analyzed system -- they use the representation that is developed in Appendix A. In Sect. 3 they point out that in the case of a nonequilibrium stationary state for finite number of sites \(L\) if there are \(n\) second class particles in the system then the distribution of first class particles (holes) on the first (last) \(n\) sites is exchangeable. Sections 4--7 give the description of two consequences of the fact that the flux of second class particles is zero. Firstly, the authors noticed that there exist fat shocks (details in Sect. 4) which determine the general structure of the phase diagram and local measures, which describe the microscopic structure of the system at different macroscopic points in terms of superposition. Secondly, the distribution of second class particles is given by an equilibrium ensemble in fixed volume, or equivalently (and simply) by a pressure ensemble (details in Sect. 7), in which the pair potential between neighboring particles grows logarithmically with the distance. The internal (bulk) behavior of the system is given by the totally asymmetric exclusion process with second class particles (see Sect. 5). The paper is summarized in Sect. 8 where the concluding remarks were made and, in particular, the description of some closely related models is presented. There are 3 appendixes in the paper which consider: a) the problem of representation of the algebra given in the paper by Eqs. (2.2)--(2.3) which satisfies Eq. (2.6); b) asymptotics of the partition function used in Sect. 5; c) finite volume corrections to density profiles given in Sect. 5.