Pinned or moving: states of a single shock in a ring

Abstract

Totally asymmetric exclusion processes (TASEP) with open boundaries are known to exhibit moving shocks or delocalised domain walls (DDW) for sufficiently small equal injection and extraction rates. In contrast TASEPs in an inhomogeneous ring have been shown to display pinned shocks or localised domain walls (LDW) under similar conditions [see, e.g., H. Hinsch and E. Frey, {\em Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 97}, 095701 (2006)]. By studying periodic exclusion processes composed of a driven (TASEP) and a diffusive segments, we uncover smooth transitions between LDW and DDW; the latter mimics DDWs in an open TASEP, controlled essentially by the fluctuations in the diffusive segment. Mean-field theory together with Monte Carlo simulations are employed to characterize the emerging nonequilibrium steady states. Our studies provide an explicit route to control the degree of shock fluctuations in periodic systems, and should be relevant in cell biological transport where the availability of molecular motors is the rate limiting constraint.

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