Order of the Variance in the Discrete Hammersley Process with Boundaries

Journal of Statistical Physics - We discuss the order of the variance on a lattice analogue of the Hammersley process with boundaries, for which the environment on each site has independent,...     

Equilibrium Fluctuations for the Totally Asymmetric Zero-Range Process

We consider the one-dimensional Totally Asymmetric Zero-Range process evolving on ? and starting from the Geometric product measure ν _ρ . On the hyperbolic time scale the temporal evolution of the limit density fluctuation field is deterministic, in the sense that the limit field at time t is a translation of the initial one. We consider the system in a reference frame moving at this velocity and we show that the limit density fluctuation field does not evolve in time until N ^4/3, which implies the current across a characteristic to vanish on this longer time scale.     

Current Fluctuations in the One-Dimensional Symmetric Exclusion Process with Open Boundaries

We calculate the first four cumulants of the integrated current of the one-dimensional symmetric simple exclusion process of N sites with open boundary conditions. For large system size N, the generating function of the integrated current depends on the densities ρ _a and ρ _b of the two reservoirs and on the fugacity z, the parameter conjugated to the integrated current, through a single parameter. Based on our expressions for these first four cumulants, we make a conjecture which leads to a prediction for all the higher cumulants. In the case ρ _a =1 and ρ _b =0, our conjecture gives the same universal distribution as the one obtained by Lee, Levitov, and Yakovets for one-dimensional quantum conductors in the metallic regime.     

Fluctuations in the Weakly Asymmetric Exclusion Process with Open Boundary Conditions

We investigate the fluctuations around the average density profile in the weakly asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries in the steady state. We show that these fluctuations are given, in the macroscopic limit, by a centered Gaussian field and we compute explicitly its covariance function. We use two approaches. The first method is dynamical and based on fluctuations around the hydrodynamic limit. We prove that the density fluctuations evolve macroscopically according to an autonomous stochastic equation, and we search for the stationary distribution of this evolution. The second approach, which is based on a representation of the steady state as a sum over paths, allows one to write the density fluctuations in the steady state as a sum over two independent processes, one of which is the derivative of a Brownian motion, the other one being related to a random path in a potential.     

Flux Fluctuations in the One Dimensional Nearest Neighbors Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process

Let J(t) be the the integrated flux of particles in the symmetric simple exclusion process starting with the product invariant measure ν _ρ with density ρ. We compute its rescaled asymptotic variance: $$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{t \to \infty } t^{ - 1/2} \mathbb{V}J(t) = \sqrt {2/\pi } (1 - \rho )\rho$$ Furthermore we show that t ^?1/4 J(t) converges weakly to a centered normal random variable with this variance. From these results we compute the asymptotic variance of a tagged particle in the nearest neighbor case and show the corresponding central limit theorem.     

Fluctuations for Kawasaki Dynamics

In this paper Kawasaki dynamics are considered. Lower bounds are obtained for the variance of the occupation time of a site in any dimension and for temperature above critical temperature. These lower bounds are expressed in terms of the density correlation function and hence relate the fluctuations to some phase transition quantities. At critical temperature, under a reasonable assumption of the static structure function, lower bounds for the variance of the occupation time are obtained. These lower bounds are consistent with the supposed value of the critical exponent. This paper also examines the same problem for Glauber dynamics and shows that the phase transition may not be of importance for the behavior of fluctuations.     

The Asymmetric Exclusion Process Revisited: Fluctuations and Dynamics in the Domain Wall Picture

We investigate the total asymmetric exclusion process by analyzing the dynamics of the shock. Within this approach we are able to calculate the fluctuations of the number of particles and density profiles not only in the stationary state but also in the transient regime. We find that the analytical predictions and the simulation results are in excellent agreement.     

Current Fluctuations of the One Dimensional Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process with Step Initial Condition

For the symmetric simple exclusion process on an infinite line, we calculate exactly the fluctuations of the integrated current Q _t during time t through the origin when, in the initial condition, the sites are occupied with density ρ _a on the negative axis and with density ρ _b on the positive axis. All the cumulants of Q _t grow like . In the range where , the decay exp [−Q _t ³/t] of the distribution of Q _t is non-Gaussian. Our results are obtained using the Bethe ansatz and several identities derived recently by Tracy and Widom for exclusion processes on the infinite line. We acknowledge the support of the French Ministry of Education through the ANR BLAN07-2184264 grant.     

Equilibrium Fluctuations for Zero-Range-Exclusion Processes

We introduce a Markovian particle system which is a kind of lattice gas on Z consisting of particles carrying energy and whose dynamics is a combination of those of an exclusion process (for particles) and a zero-range process (for energy). It has two conserved quantities, the number of particles and the total energy. The process is reversible relative to certain product probability measures, but of non-gradient type. It is proved that under hydrodynamic scaling the equilibrium fluctuation fields of two conserved quantities converge in law to an infinite dimensional Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process.     

Efficiency Fluctuations in a Quantum Battery Charged by a Repeated Interaction Process

A repeated interaction process assisted by auxiliary thermal systems charges a quantum battery. The charging energy is supplied by switching on and off the interaction between the battery and the thermal systems. The charged state is an equilibrium state for the repeated interaction process, and the ergotropy characterizes its charge. The working cycle consists in extracting the ergotropy and charging the battery again. We discuss the fluctuating efficiency of the process, among other fluctuating properties. These fluctuations are dominated by the equilibrium distribution and depend weakly on other process properties.     

Mesoscopic Fluctuations for the Thinned Circular Unitary Ensemble

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of mesoscopic fluctuations for the thinned Circular Unitary Ensemble. The effect of thinning is that the eigenvalues start to decorrelate. The decorrelation is stronger on the larger scales than on the smaller scales. We investigate this behavior by studying mesoscopic linear statistics. There are two regimes depending on the scale parameter and the thinning parameter. In one regime we obtain a CLT of a classical type and in the other regime we retrieve the CLT for CUE. The two regimes are separated by a critical line. On the critical line the limiting fluctuations are no longer Gaussian, but described by infinitely divisible laws. We argue that this transition phenomenon is universal by showing that the same transition and their laws appear for fluctuations of the thinned sine process in a growing box. The proofs are based on a Riemann-Hilbert problem for integrable operators.     

Fibre-Coupling Zig-Zag Beam Deflection Technology for Investigation of Attenuation Process of Laser-Induced Shock Waves

A novel fibre-coupling zig-zag beam deflection technology is developed to investigate the attenuation process of laser-induced shock waves in air. Utilizing ordinal reflections of probe beams by a pair of parallel mirrors, a zig-zag beam field is formed, which has eleven probe beams in the horizontal plane. When a laser-induced shock wave propagates through the testing field, it causes eleven deflection signals one after another. The whole attenuation process of the shock wave in air can be detected and illuminated clearly on one experimental curve.     

钝感炸药冲击起爆反应过程的 PDV 技术

为研究A型钝感炸药冲击起爆反应演化过程,进行了火炮驱动蓝宝石飞片的一维平面冲击实验。实验中采用光子多普勒测速仪(Photonic Doppler velocimetry,PDV)技术测量冲击起爆后台阶型炸药的粒子速度。在炸药不同厚度台阶的后界面固定镀铝膜的楔形氟化锂(LiF)窗口,利用阻抗匹配将PDV测量的LiF窗口波后粒子速度转化为炸药样品波后粒子速度。比较组合式电磁粒子速度计和PDV两种测速技术,结果表明,相较于组合式电磁粒子速度计,PDV测量的粒子精度更高。简要分析了PDV测速探头角度、探头孔径、窗口折射率等影响,得到PDV测速的相对不确定度小于1%。     

Inequalities for Non-equilibrium Fluctuations of Work

Five previously unknown inequalities relating equilibrium free energy differences and non-equilibrium work fluctuations are derived, and lucid path to derivation of many similar inequalities is presented. These results are based upon combined exploitation of the Jarzynski equality and the generalization of the scheme for producing uncertainty-type inequalities due to H. Weyl. The inequalities may possibly lead to better understanding of behavior of the equilibrium free-energy estimators from non-equilibrium experimental data in many important applications concerning biological, chemical, and physical molecular processes.     

Step Fluctuations for a Faceted Crystal

A statistical mechanics model for a faceted crystal is the 3D Ising model at zero temperature. It is assumed that in one octant all sites are occupied by atoms, the remaining ones being empty. Allowed atom configurations are such that they can be obtained from the filled octant through successive removals of atoms with breaking of precisely three bonds. If V denotes the number of atoms removed, then the grand canonical Boltzmann weight is q ^V , 0<q<1. As shown by Cerf and Kenyon, in the limit q1 a deterministic shape is attained, which has the three facets (100), (010), (001), and a rounded piece interpolating between them. We analyse the step statistics as q1. In the rounded piece it is given by a determinantal process based on the discrete sine-kernel. Exactly at the facet edge, the steps have more space to meander. Their statistics is again determinantal, but this time based on the Airy-kernel. In particular, the border step is well approximated by the Airy process, which has been obtained previously in the context of growth models. Our results are based on the asymptotic analysis for space-time inhomogeneous transfer matrices.     

Equilibrium Fluctuations for Interacting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Particles

 We study the hydrodynamic density fluctuations of an infinite system of interacting particles on ℝ ^d . The particles interact between them through a two body superstable potential, and with a surrounding fluid in equilibrium through a random viscous force of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type. The stationary initial distribution is the Gibbs measure associated with the potential and with a given temperature and fugacity. We prove that the time-dependent density fluctuation field converges in law, under diffusive scaling of space and time, to the solution of a linear stochastic partial differential equation driven by white noise. Received: 10 July 2001 / Accepted: 9 September 2002 Published online: 8 January 2003 RID="*" ID="*" We thank J. Fritz for fruitful discussions, in particular about the existence of the infinite dynamics. A special thanks to L. Bertini for help in the proof of the spectral gap estimate (cf. Appendix B). Communicated by H. Spohn     

Free Energies and Fluctuations for the Unitary Brownian Motion

We show that the Laplace transforms of traces of words in independent unitary Brownian motions converge towards an analytic function on a non trivial disc. These results allow one to study the asymptotic behavior of Wilson loops under the unitary Yang–Mills measure on the plane with a potential. The limiting objects obtained are shown to be characterized by equations analogue to Schwinger–Dyson’s ones, named here after Makeenko and Migdal.     

Fluctuations around the Boltzman equation

For a system of hard spheres we prove the convergence of the second moment of the fluctuation field in the low-density limit. This extends a previous result by van Beijeren, Lanford, Lebowitz and Spohn⁽¹⁾ to nonequilibrium states.