Structure of the stationary state of the asymmetric target process

Details Structure of the stationary state of the asymmetric target process Structure of the stationary state of the asymmetric target process

2007-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/0705.0907v1

J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P08005

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

30 pages, 16 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08005

We introduce a novel migration process, the target process. This process is dual to the zero-range process (ZRP) in the sense that, while for the ZRP the rate of transfer of a particle only depends on the occupation of the departure site, it only depends on the occupation of the arrival site for the target process. More precisely, duality associates to a given ZRP a unique target process, and vice-versa. If the dynamics is symmetric, i.e., in the absence of a bias, both processes have the same stationary-state product measure. In this work we focus our interest on the situation where the latter measure exhibits a continuous condensation transition at some finite critical density $\rho_c$, irrespective of the dimensionality. The novelty comes from the case of asymmetric dynamics, where the target process has a nontrivial fluctuating stationary state, whose characteristics depend on the dimensionality. In one dimension, the system remains homogeneous at any finite density. An alternating scenario however prevails in the high-density regime: typical configurations consist of long alternating sequences of highly occupied and less occupied sites. The local density of the latter is equal to $\rho_c$ and their occupation distribution is critical. In dimension two and above, the asymmetric target process exhibits a phase transition at a threshold density $\rho_0$ much larger than $\rho_c$. The system is homogeneous at any density below $\rho_0$, whereas for higher densities it exhibits an extended condensate elongated along the direction of the mean current, on top of a critical background with density $\rho_c$.

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