TY - JOUR
T1 - The crossover regime for the weakly asymmetric simple exclusion process
AU - Sasamoto, Tomohiro
AU - Spohn, Herbert
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements We are grateful to Michael Prähofer for many illuminating discussions and to Sylvain Prolhac for helping with the combinatorics in Appendix C. H.S. thanks Jeremy Quastel for emphasizing the importance of the crossover WASEP. This work is supported by a DFG grant. In addition T.S. acknowledges the support from KAKENHI (9740044) and H.S. from Math-for-Industry of Kyushu University.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We consider the asymmetric simple exclusion process in one dimension with weak asymmetry (WASEP) and 0-1 step initial condition. Our interest are the fluctuations of the time-integrated particle current at some prescribed spatial location. One expects a crossover from Gaussian to Tracy-Widom distributed fluctuations. The appropriate crossover scale is an asymmetry of order √ε, times of order ε-2, and a spatial location of order ε-3/2. For this parameter window we obtain the limiting distribution function of the integrated current in terms of an integral over the difference of two Fredholm determinants. For large times, on the scale ε-2, this distribution function converges to the one of Tracy-Widom.
AB - We consider the asymmetric simple exclusion process in one dimension with weak asymmetry (WASEP) and 0-1 step initial condition. Our interest are the fluctuations of the time-integrated particle current at some prescribed spatial location. One expects a crossover from Gaussian to Tracy-Widom distributed fluctuations. The appropriate crossover scale is an asymmetry of order √ε, times of order ε-2, and a spatial location of order ε-3/2. For this parameter window we obtain the limiting distribution function of the integrated current in terms of an integral over the difference of two Fredholm determinants. For large times, on the scale ε-2, this distribution function converges to the one of Tracy-Widom.
KW - Finite time correction to Tracy-Widom
KW - KPZ crossover scale
KW - WASEP
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U2 - 10.1007/s10955-010-9990-z
DO - 10.1007/s10955-010-9990-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77954032129
SN - 0022-4715
VL - 140
SP - 209
EP - 231
JO - Journal of Statistical Physics
JF - Journal of Statistical Physics
IS - 2
ER -