Structure of the stationary state of the asymmetric target process

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08005MaRDI QIDQ5239387zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 22 October 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0907

zero-range processes stationary states driven diffusive systems (theory)stochastic particle dynamics (theory)

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21)

Abstract: We introduce a novel migration process, the target process. This process is dual to the zero-range process (ZRP) in the sense that, while for the ZRP the rate of transfer of a particle only depends on the occupation of the departure site, it only depends on the occupation of the arrival site for the target process. More precisely, duality associates to a given ZRP a unique target process, and vice-versa. If the dynamics is symmetric, i.e., in the absence of a bias, both processes have the same stationary-state product measure. In this work we focus our interest on the situation where the latter measure exhibits a continuous condensation transition at some finite critical density

h o_{c}

, irrespective of the dimensionality. The novelty comes from the case of asymmetric dynamics, where the target process has a nontrivial fluctuating stationary state, whose characteristics depend on the dimensionality. In one dimension, the system remains homogeneous at any finite density. An alternating scenario however prevails in the high-density regime: typical configurations consist of long alternating sequences of highly occupied and less occupied sites. The local density of the latter is equal to

h o_{c}

and their occupation distribution is critical. In dimension two and above, the asymmetric target process exhibits a phase transition at a threshold density

h o_{0}

much larger than

h o_{c}

. The system is homogeneous at any density below

h o_{0}

, whereas for higher densities it exhibits an extended condensate elongated along the direction of the mean current, on top of a critical background with density

h o_{c}

.

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