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Large Deviation of the Density Profile in the Steady State of the Open Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process

arXiv:cond-mat/0109346 · doi:10.1023/A:1014555927320

Abstract

We consider an open one dimensional lattice gas on sites , with particles jumping independently with rate 1 to neighboring interior empty sites, the {\it simple symmetric exclusion process}. The particle fluxes at the left and right boundaries, corresponding to exchanges with reservoirs at different chemical potentials, create a stationary nonequilibrium state (SNS) with a steady flux of particles through the system. The mean density profile in this state, which is linear, describes the typical behavior of a macroscopic system, i.e., this profile occurs with probability 1 when . The probability of microscopic configurations corresponding to some other profile , , has the asymptotic form ; is the {\it large deviation functional}. In contrast to equilibrium systems, for which is just the integral of the appropriately normalized local free energy density, the we find here for the nonequilibrium system is a nonlocal function of . This gives rise to the long range correlations in the SNS predicted by fluctuating hydrodynamics and suggests similar non-local behavior of in general SNS, where the long range correlations have been observed experimentally.

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