Inhomogeneous exclusion processes with extended objects: The effect of defect locations

J. J. Dong, B. Schmittmann, R. K. P. Zia

We study the effects of local inhomogeneities, i.e., slow sites of hopping rate $q<1$, in a totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) for particles of size $\ell \ge 1$…