How to initialize a second class particle?

DOI10.1214/16-AOP1143MaRDI QIDQ682241zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Márton Balázs, Attila László Nagy

Publication date 14 February 2018

Published in The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04870, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1511773658

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamic limit,collision probabilityinteracting particle systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: We identify the ballistically and diffusively rescaled limit distribution of the second class particle position in a wide range of asymmetric and symmetric interacting particle systems with established hydrodynamic behavior, respectively (including zero-range, misanthrope and many other models). The initial condition is a step profile which, in some classical cases of asymmetric models, gives rise to a rarefaction fan scenario. We also point out a model with non-concave, non-convex hydrodynamics, where the rescaled second class particle distribution has both continuous and discrete counterparts. The results follow from a substantial generalization of P.A. Ferrari and C. Kipnis' arguments ("Second class particles in the rarefaction fan", Ann. Inst. H. Poincar'e, 31, 1995) for the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process. The main novelty is the introduction of a signed coupling measure as initial data, which nevertheless results in a proper probability initial distribution for the site of the second class particle and makes the extension possible. We also reveal in full generality a very interesting invariance property of the one-site marginal distribution of the process underneath the second class particle which in particular proves the intrinsicality of our choice for the initial distribution. Finally, we give a lower estimate on the probability of survival of a second class particle-antiparticle pair.

Review text

The model under consideration is a stochastic nearest neighbor interacting particle system \[ \omega=(\omega(t))_{t\geq 0}=((\omega_i(t)_{i\in \mathcal Z})_{t\geq 0}, \] where \(\omega_i(t)\) is interpreted as a number of particles of the first class, at site \(i\) of the lattice at time \(t\). The state space of the process is the set of configurations \(\Omega=\Upsilon^{\mathcal Z},\;\Upsilon=(\omega^{\min},\ldots,\omega^{\max})\subset \mathcal Z.\) The continuous time Markov dynamics on \(\Omega\) consists of right and left nearest neighbor jumps of particles on the lattice, with respective rates \(p\) and \(q\). The particles of the second class are identified via coupling of two configurations \(\omega,\eta\in \Omega\). The sign \(s_i\) of a particle \(i\) in the coupled pair \((\omega,\eta)\) is given by \(s_i= \mathbf 1(\omega_i-\eta_i>0)- \mathbf 1(\omega_i-\eta_i<0)\) and the particles perform nearest neighbor jumps, simultaneously in \(\omega,\eta\), according to a specially constructed mechanism. The paper investigates the motion of the particles of the second class.

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