Reaction-diffusion processes of hard-core particles.

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Abstract: We study a 12-parameter stochastic process involving particles with two-site interaction and hard-core repulsion on a d-dimensional lattice. In this model, which includes the asymmetric exclusion process, contact processes and other processes, the stochastic variables are particle occupation numbers taking values nvecx=0,1. We show that on a 10-parameter submanifold the k-point equal-time correlation functions exvalnvecx1cdotsnvecxk satisfy linear differential- difference equations involving no higher correlators. In particular, the average density exvalnvecx satisfies an integrable diffusion-type equation. These properties are explained in terms of dual processes and various duality relations are derived. By defining the time evolution of the stochastic process in terms of a quantum Hamiltonian H, the model becomes equivalent to a lattice model in thermal equilibrium in d+1 dimensions. We show that the spectrum of H is identical to the spectrum of the quantum Hamiltonian of a d-dimensional, anisotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg model. In one dimension our results hint at some new algebraic structure behind the integrability of the system.









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