Superdiffusivity of asymmetric exclusion process in dimensions one and two (Q1420241)

An asymmetric exclusion process is a Markov process on \(\{0,1\}^{Z^d}\) consisting of interacting continuous time random walks with asymmetric jump rates. There is at most one particle allowed per site. A particle at a site \(x\) waits for an exponential time and then jumps to \(y\) provided the site is not occupied. Otherwise the jump is suppressed and the process starts again. The jump is attempted at rate \(p(y-x)\). The jump law \(p(\cdot)\) is assumed to have a nonzero mean, so that there is transport of the system. The main question of the paper is the behaviour for large \(t\) of the diffusion coefficient \[ D(t)={1\over 8t}\sum_{x\in Z^d}x^2E_{\rho}[\{\eta_x(t)-\rho\}\{\eta_0(0)-\rho\}], \] where \(\eta=\{\eta_x\}_{x\in Z^d}\in \{0,1\}^{Z^d},\) \(E_{\rho}\) stands for the expectation on the path space corresponding to a process starting from a Bernoulli measure with density \(\rho .\) It is proven that the diffusion coefficent for the asymmetric exclusion process diverges at least as fast as \(t^{1/4}\) in dimension \(d=1\) and \((\log t)^{1/2}\) in \(d=2.\)