1207.6879 (Mieke Gorissen et al.)

Exact Current Statistics of the ASEP with Open Boundaries    [PDF]

Mieke Gorissen, Alexandre Lazarescu, Kirone Mallick, Carlo Vanderzande

Non-equilibrium systems are often characterized by the transport of some quantity at a macroscopic scale, such as, for instance, a current of particles through a wire. The Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process (ASEP) is a paradigm for non-equilibrium transport that is amenable to exact analytical solution. In the present work, we determine the full statistics of the current in the finite size open ASEP for all values of the parameters. Our exact analytical results are checked against numerical calculations using DMRG techniques.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6879