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Current fluctuations for the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v2 Probability

Abstract

The time-integrated current of the TASEP has non-Gaussian fluctuations of order t1/3t^{1/3}. The recently discovered connection to random matrices and the Painlev\'e II Riemann-Hilbert problem provides a technique through which we obtain the probability distribution of the current fluctuations, in particular their dependence on initial conditions, and the stationary two-point function. Some open problems are explained.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0101200,
  title  = {Current fluctuations for the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process},
  author = {M. Praehofer and H. Spohn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0101200},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 pages, 4 figures, the correct 2x2 distribution for the semi-infinite case has been included

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