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Random turn walk on a half line with creation of particles at the origin

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2008-01-03 v1 Other Condensed Matter Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We consider a version of random motion of hard core particles on the semi-lattice 1,2,3,... 1, 2, 3,..., where in each time instant one of three possible events occurs, viz., (a) a randomly chosen particle hops to a free neighboring site, (b) a particle is created at the origin (namely, at site 1) provided that site 1 is free and (c) a particle is eliminated at the origin (provided that the site 1 is occupied). Relations to the BKP equation are explained. Namely, the tau functions of two different BKP hierarchies provide generating functions respectively (I) for transition weights between different particle configurations and (II) for an important object: a normalization function which plays the role of the statistical sum for our non-equilibrium system. As an example we study a model where the hopping rate depends on two parameters (rr and β\beta). For time \time\time\to\infty we obtain the asymptotic configuration of particles obtained from the initial empty state (the state without particles) and find an analog of the first order transition at β=1\beta=1.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0801.0066,
  title  = {Random turn walk on a half line with creation of particles at the origin},
  author = {J. W. van de Leur and A. Yu. Orlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0066},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

23 pages, 2 figures, has been reported on the workshop "Random and integrable models in mathematics and physics" in Brussel, September 11-15, 2007