Dynamical properties of single-file diffusion
Abstract
We study the statistics of a tagged particle in single-file diffusion, a one-dimensional interacting infinite-particle system in which the order of particles never changes. We compute the two-time correlation function for the displacement of the tagged particle for an arbitrary single-file system. We also discuss single-file analogs of the arcsine law and the law of the iterated logarithm characterizing the behavior of Brownian motion. Using a macroscopic fluctuation theory we devise a formalism giving the cumulant generating functional. In principle, this functional contains the full statistics of the tagged particle trajectory---the full single-time statistics, all multiple-time correlation functions, etc. are merely special cases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.01287,
title = {Dynamical properties of single-file diffusion},
author = {P. L. Krapivsky and Kirone Mallick and Tridib Sadhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.01287},
year = {2016}
}
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20 pages, 1 figure