The asymmetric simple exclusion model with multiple shocks

DOI10.1016/S0246-0203(00)00118-7MaRDI QIDQ1978129zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Pablo A. Ferrari, L. R. Fontes, Maria Eulalia Vares

Publication date 18 October 2001

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911237, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIHPB_2000__36_2_109_0, https://eudml.org/doc/77652

zbMATH Keywords

asymmetric simple exclusion processdynamical phase transitionshock fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

Abstract: We consider the one dimensional totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with initial product distribution with densities $0leqh{o}_0<h{o}_1<\mathrm{...}<h{o}_{n}leq1$ in $(-infty,c_{1}v{e}^{-1})$, $[c_{1}v{e}^{-1},c_{2}epsilo{n}^{-1}),\mathrm{...},[c_{n}v{e}^{-1},+infty)$, respectively. The initial distribution has shocks (discontinuities) at $epsilo{n}^{-1}{c}_k$, k=1,...,n and we assume that in the corresponding macroscopic Burgers equation the n shocks meet in $r^{\ast }$ at time $t^{\ast }$. The microscopic position of the shocks is represented by second class particles whose distribution in the scale $epsilo{n}^{-1/2}$ is shown to converge to a function of n independent Gaussian random variables representing the fluctuations of these particles ``just before the meeting. We show that the density field at time $v{e}^{-1}{t}^{\ast }$, in the scale $v{e}^{-1/2}$ and as seen from $v{e}^{-1}{r}^{\ast }$ converges weakly to a random measure with piecewise constant density as $veo0$; the points of discontinuity depend on these limiting Gaussian variables. As a corollary we show that, as $epsilono0$, the distribution of the process at site $epsilo{n}^{-1}{r}^{\ast }+v{e}^{-1/2}a$ at time $epsilo{n}^{-1}{t}^{\ast }$ tends to a non trivial convex combination of the product measures with densities $h{o}_k$, the weights of the combination being explicitly computable.

Review text

The paper deals with the PDE \(\partial_{t}\rho+\gamma\partial_{r}(\rho(1-\rho))=0\) which describes the hydrodynamical behaviour of the one-dimensional asymmetric exclusion process and where \(\gamma\) is the mean of the jump distribution. The problem which is more especially considered here is the description of the microscopic behaviour of the system at certain discontinuity points (or shock fronts) of the solution of this equation, when the initial distribution has shocks (discontinuities). It is shown that the density converges weakly to a random measure with piecewise constant density while the points of discontinuity depend on these limiting Gaussian variables.

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