Hitting times of rare events in boundary driven symmetric simple exclusion processes
Probability
2013-04-04 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
In the boundary driven symmetric simple exclusion process consider an open set of density profiles which does not contain the stationary density profile. We prove that the first time the empirical measure visits the set converges to an exponential distribution.
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@article{arxiv.1304.0805,
title = {Hitting times of rare events in boundary driven symmetric simple exclusion processes},
author = {O. Benois and C. Landim and M. Mourragui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0805},
year = {2013}
}