Full absorption statistics of diffusing particles with exclusion

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2015/04/P04009zbMATH Open1456.82680arXiv1412.2211OpenAlexW2054428342MaRDI QIDQ3302227FDOQ3302227

Authors: Baruch Meerson 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Suppose that an infinite lattice gas of constant density $n_0$, whose dynamics are described by the symmetric simple exclusion process, is brought in contact with a spherical absorber of radius $R$. Employing the macroscopic fluctuation theory and assuming the additivity principle, we evaluate the probability distribution $mathcalP(N)$ that $N$ particles are absorbed during a long time $T$. The limit of $N=0$ corresponds to the survival problem, whereas $$ describes the opposite extreme. Here $$ is the emph{average} number of absorbed particles (in three dimensions), and $D_0$ is the gas diffusivity. For $n_{0}ll1$ the exclusion effects are negligible, and $mathcalP(N)$ can be approximated, for not too large $N$, by the Poisson distribution with mean $$. For finite $n_0$, $mathcalP(N)$ is non-Poissonian. We show that $$ at $$. At sufficiently large $N$ and $n_0<1/2$ the most likely density profile of the gas, conditional on the absorption of $N$ particles, is non-monotonic in space. We also establish a close connection between this problem and that of statistics of current in finite open systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2211

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

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