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The crossover regime for the weakly asymmetric simple exclusion process

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-18 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the asymmetric simple exclusion process in one dimension with weak asymmetry (WASEP) and 0-1 step initial condition. Our interest are the fluctuations of the time-integrated particle current at some prescribed spatial location. One expects a crossover from Gaussian to Tracy-Widom distributed fluctuations. The appropriate crossover scale is an asymmetry of order ϵ1/2\epsilon^{-1/2}, times of order ϵ2\epsilon^{-2}, and a spatial location of order ϵ3/2\epsilon^{-3/2}. For this parameter window we obtain the limiting distribution function of the integrated current in terms of an integral over the difference of two Fredholm determinants. For large times, on the scale ϵ2\epsilon^{-2}, this distribution function converges to the one of Tracy-Widom.

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@article{arxiv.1002.1873,
  title  = {The crossover regime for the weakly asymmetric simple exclusion process},
  author = {Tomohiro Sasamoto and Herbert Spohn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.1873},
  year   = {2015}
}

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26 pages, 1 figure, Appendix C added

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