Invariant measures of exclusion processes with a look-ahead rule
Statistical Mechanics
2026-04-03 v1
Abstract
We study a one-dimensional exclusion process with a fixed jump length in which a particle may advance or retreat sites provided all intermediate sites are vacant, with hopping rates of Arrhenius type depending on the local headway. We identify the class of rates admitting an explicit Ising-Gibbs invariant measure, with stationarity governed by pairwise balance rather than detailed balance. In the thermodynamic limit, we derive a closed-form stationary current that recovers the mean-field prediction for look-ahead traffic flow models exactly when particles are uncorrelated, and quantifies the correlation-induced correction for non-trivial interactions, illustrated with two explicit families of interaction potentials.
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@article{arxiv.2604.01796,
title = {Invariant measures of exclusion processes with a look-ahead rule},
author = {Lam Thi Nhung and Ngo Phuoc Nguyen Ngoc and Huynh Anh Thi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01796},
year = {2026}
}