Ergodicity breaking in one-dimensional reaction–diffusion systems

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/13/004MaRDI QIDQ5201585zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Attila Rákos, Matthias Paessens

Publication date 19 April 2006

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511089

zbMATH Keywords

ergodicityasymmetric simple exclusion processdriven diffusive systemsthermodynamic limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

Abstract: We investigate one-dimensional driven diffusive systems where particles may also be created and annihilated in the bulk with sufficiently small rate. In an open geometry, i.e., coupled to particle reservoirs at the two ends, these systems can exhibit ergodicity breaking in the thermodynamic limit. The triggering mechanism is the random motion of a shock in an effective potential. Based on this physical picture we provide a simple condition for the existence of a non-ergodic phase in the phase diagram of such systems. In the thermodynamic limit this phase exhibits two or more stationary states. However, for finite systems transitions between these states are possible. It is shown that the mean lifetime of such a metastable state is exponentially large in system-size. As an example the ASEP with the A0A--AAA reaction kinetics is analyzed in detail. We present a detailed discussion of the phase diagram of this particular model which indeed exhibits a phase with broken ergodicity. We measure the lifetime of the metastable states with a Monte Carlo simulation in order to confirm our analytical findings.

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