J M Luck and C Godrèche J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P08005 doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08005
J M Luck and C Godrèche
Show affiliationsWe 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 ρc, 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 prevails at high density: typical configurations consist of long alternating sequences of highly occupied and less occupied sites. The local density of the latter sites is equal to ρc and their occupation distribution is critical. The coherence length of these alternating structures diverges quadratically at high density. In dimension two and above, the asymmetric target process exhibits a phase transition at a threshold density ρ0 much larger than ρc. The system is homogeneous at any density below ρ0, 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 ρc.
driven diffusive systems (theory)
05.70.Fh Phase transitions: general studies
05.40.-a Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
82C27 Dynamic critical phenomena
82C26 Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general)
Issue 08 (August 2007)
Received 7 May 2007, accepted for publication 21 June 2007
Published 1 August 2007
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