Shift equivalence of measures and the intrinsic structure of shocks in the asymmetric simple exclusion process

DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000033241.54615.43MaRDI QIDQ1809439zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Joel Lebowitz, Bernard Derrida, Sheldon Goldstein, E. R. Speer

Publication date 11 July 2000

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9804158

zbMATH Keywords

asymmetric simple exclusion processdynamics or random walksinfinite particle systemsnonuniform measuresshocks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

Abstract: We investigate properties of non-translation-invariant measures, describing particle systems on $$, which are asymptotic to different translation invariant measures on the left and on the right. Often the structure of the transition region can only be observed from a point of view which is random---in particular, configuration dependent. Two such measures will be called shift equivalent if they differ only by the choice of such a viewpoint. We introduce certain quantities, called translation sums, which, under some auxiliary conditions, characterize the equivalence classes. Our prime example is the asymmetric simple exclusion process, for which the measures in question describe the microscopic structure of shocks. In this case we compute explicitly the translation sums and find that shocks generated in different ways---in particular, via initial conditions in an infinite system or by boundary conditions in a finite system---are described by shift equivalent measures. We show also that when the shock in the infinite system is observed from the location of a second class particle, treating this particle either as a first class particle or as an empty site leads to shift equivalent shock measures.

Review text

In mathematically oriented research on statistical mechanics of infinite particle systems at equilibrium, translationally invariant probability measures are the major technical tool. A standard example of Gibbs measures for the nearest neighbour Ising model at low temperatures allows to identify various ways in which the non-translation invariant might arise. The main focus of the paper is a nonequilibrium example of the one-dimensional asymmetric simple exclusion process, that on the (Euler) macroscopic space-time scale is described by the inviscid Burgers equation for the particle density. A natural question is then to find out which particular microscopic features would correspond to shock solutions of the Burgers equation. It is found that so-called shift equivalent (non-translation invariant) measures describe the microscopic structures of shocks that are generated in different ways. In particular: via initial conditions in an infinite system or by boundary conditions in a large but finite system.

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