TASEP speed process: an effective medium approach

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AB5B8AMaRDI QIDQ5856047zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aanjaneya Kumar, Deepak Dhar

Publication date 23 March 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07102

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: We discuss the approximate phenomenological description of the motion of a single second-class particle in a two-species totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) on a 1D lattice. Initially, the second class particle is located at the origin and to its left, all sites are occupied with first class particles while to its right, all sites are vacant. Ferrari and Kipnis proved that in any particular realization, the average velocity of the second class particle tends to a constant, but this mean value has a wide variation in different histories. We discuss this phenomena, here called the TASEP Speed Process, in an approximate effective medium description, in which the second class particle moves in a random background of the space-time dependent average density of the first class particles. We do this in three different approximations of increasing accuracy, treating the motion of the second-class particle first as a simple biassed random walk in a continuum Langevin equation, then as a biased Markovian random walk with space and time dependent jump rates, and finally as a Non-Markovian biassed walk with a non-exponential distribution of waiting times between jumps. We find that, when the displacement at time $T$ is $x_0$, the conditional expectation of displacement, at time $zT$ ($z>1$) is $z{x}_0$, and the variance of the displacement only varies as $z(z-1)T$. We extend this approach to describe the trajectories of a tagged particle in the case of a emph{finite} lattice, where there are $L$ classes of particles on an $L$-site line, initially placed in the order of increasing class number. Lastly, we discuss a variant of the problem in which the exchanges between adjacent particles happened at rates proportional to the difference in their labels.

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