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Driven diffusive systems have been a paradigm for modelling many physical, chemical and biological transport processes. In the systems, spatial correlation plays an important role in the emergence of a variety of nonequilibrium phenomena and exhibits rich features such as pronounced oscillations. However, the lack of analytical results of spatial correlation precludes us from fully understanding the effect of spatial correlation on the dynamics of the system. Here we offer precise analytical predictions of the spatial correlation in a typical driven diffusive system, namely facilitated asymmetric exclusion process. We find theoretically that the correlation between two sites decays exponentially as their distance increases, which is in good agreement with numerical simulations. Furthermore, we find the exponential decay is a universal property of macroscopic homogeneous state in a broad class of 1D driven diffusive systems. Our findings deepen the understanding of many nonequilibrium phenomena resulting from spatial correlation in driven diffusive systems.
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Introduction
Driven diffusive systems are of current interest in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics due to their rich and complex dynamic features1,2,3,4,5. A simple and typical model in these systems is the asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) describing particles hopping with hard-core repulsion along a one dimensional lattice unidirectionally. The ASEP was introduced in 1968 by MacDonald and Gibbs to model protein synthesis in organisms6. Recently, numerous variants of ASEP have been developed to model biological transport7,8,9,10, polymer dynamics in dense media11, diffusion through membrane channels12, traffic flow13,14 and so on. Despite relatively simple rules, the ASEP and related models show a range of nontrivial macroscopic phenomena such as boundary induced and bulk induced phase transitions15,16,17,18, spontaneous symmetry breaking19,20, phase separation21,22,23,24,25 and thus serve as basic tools to investigate the systems far from thermal equilibrium26,27,28.
In driven diffusive systems, spatial correlation plays an important role in the formation of the diverse nonequilibrium phenomena29,30. As an exceptional case, in the basic ASEP, the correlation is absent2,31. Thus, the simple mean-field analysis is able to offer the exact current , where ρ is the system density and p is the hopping rate. In contrast, spatial correlation usually exists in general situations, which makes the traditional mean-field analysis incapable of rendering the theoretical solution. In most cases, numerical simulation is still the exclusive tool to explore the spatial and temporal correlation in driven diffusive systems. The increased use of cluster mean-field, is another method of testing the correlations32. Some interesting phenomena have been observed from simulations. For instance, Gupta et al. found that density correlations display pronounced oscillations in both space and time, as a consequence of particles with extended length. The density autocorrelation has been found to decay exponentially at time increases, except at a special density when it decays as a power law33.
Here we aim to offer analytical results of the spatial correlation in a representative driven diffusive system, namely facilitated asymmetric exclusion process that is subject to a generalized class of ASEP models. Specifically, in the model, the hopping probability of a particle depends on the occupancies of two neighboring sites: one ahead and one behind34. The model was proposed to study nonequilibrium absorbing state phase transitions35. It is relevant to several facts such as the particle mobility decreases as the local density increases in glassy dynamics36 and a moving particle can exert a hydrodynamic force that pushes other particles along in molecular motor models37. Moreover, due to particle-hole symmetry, the facilitated exclusion process is the counterpart of the ASEP with next-nearest-neighbor interaction as studied in ref. 14.
To explore the spatial correlation analytically, we first derive the joint occupancy probabilities in the facilitated asymmetric exclusion process theoretically. The formula of the joint occupancy probabilities allows us to provide the exact formula of the spatial correlation between any two sites in the model. The analytical results have been validated and are in good agreement with numerical simulations. Furthermore, we explore the spatial correlation in several other driven diffusive systems, finding that the spatial correlation decays exponentially in all the investigated systems. These observations suggest that the exponential decay of spatial correlation is a universal feature in 1D driven diffusive systems with macroscopic homogeneous state. The findings considerably deepen our understanding of the emergence of many nonequilibrium phenomena that stem from the nonlinear spatial correlation, such as the jamming in a variety of transport systems in biology and social systems.
Results and Discussions
The sketch of the facilitated exclusion process studied in this paper is shown in Fig. 1. The model rules are as follows. A particle at site i moves to site i + 1 with probability p if the front site i + 1 is empty and the rear site i − 1 is also empty. Otherwise, if the rear site i − 1 is occupied, the particle at site i hops to site i + 1 with probability q if site i + 1 is empty. In the model, random update rules and periodic boundary conditions are employed. In the special case p = q, the model reduces to the basic ASEP.
We consider the four joint occupancy probabilities P(τi, τi+1). Here denoting that site i is empty (τi = 0) or occupied (τi = 1). For the convenience of expression, we also use x, y and z to denote P(1, 1), P(1, 0) and P(0, 0) respectively. Note that due to symmetry, one has P(1, 0) = P(0, 1). Via a two-cluster mean field analysis of the model (see section Methods), we can obtain
where
when p ≠ q. In the special case p = q, the solution is x = ρ2, y = ρ(1 − ρ), z = (1 − ρ)2. As demonstrated in ref. 38, the two cluster mean field results are exact solution of the system.
Next we investigate the correlations in the system based on the exact solution. We define the correlation between two sites as
Obviously μ = 0 if and only if there is no correlation between sites i and j. Note that there are four correlation coefficients and we let μ1 (μ2, μ3, μ4) denote the one with τi = 0 and τj = 0 (τi = 1 and τj = 0, τi = 0 and τj = 1, τi = 1 and τj = 1). Thus the correlation coefficient, say μ1, can be expressed as
with n denoting the distance between sites i and j. Note that the classical correlation function is related to μ4 via .
Using the joint occupancy probabilities, we can derive the correlation coefficients (see section Methods)
and
where
Note that when y > ρ(1 − ρ), the four correlation coefficients vary alternatively between positive and negative values. In the special case p = q, μ = 0 as expected because y = ρ(1 − ρ).
Obviously, in the case of ρ = 0.5, . Figure 2 shows the exponential relationship between , , and n. The Monte Carlo simulations and the analytical expressions are in perfect agreement.
Now we investigate physical implication of the exponential decay of correlation in the driven diffusive systems. To this end, we study four different models of driven diffusive systems.
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The Katz-Lebowitz-Spohn (KLS) model39,40. In the KLS model, particle hops with rate as follows: 1100 → 1010 with rate 1 + ε, 0101 → 0011 with rate 1 − ε, 0100 → 0010 with rate 1 + δ, 1101 → 1011 with rate 1 − δ. Here “1” denotes a particle and “0” denotes an empty site.
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The Dierl-Maass-Einax (DME) model41. In the DME model, particle hops from site i to site i + 1 with rate .
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The bus route model42. In the model, a particle (bus) hops with rate 1 if there is no passenger at the site. Otherwise the particle hops with rate p < 1. At each empty site, passengers arrive with rate λ.
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The bidirectional two-lane model25. In the model, particles move with opposite direction on two parallel lanes and do not change lane. The inter-lane interaction is implemented as particles slow down when there is a particle at the same site in the other lane, which mimics narrow road section. In this case, particle hopping rate p < 1. Otherwise, particle hops with rate 1.
Although we cannot derive the exact expression of correlation, numerical simulations show that the correlation also decays exponentially in the KLS model and the DME model, see Fig. 3. Note that in the KLS model, the DME model and the facilitated ASEP, the system is always macroscopically homogeneous.
Figure 4(a) shows the plot of average velocity versus particle density in the bus route model. Figure 4(b) shows the plot of flow rate versus particle density in the bidirectional two-lane model. In the bus route model, when the density is above a critical value ρc, the system is macroscopic homogeneous, see Fig. 5(a). However, below ρc, bus bunching occurs and the system becomes macroscopically non-homogenous, see Fig. 5(b). In the bidirectional two-lane model, the system is homogenous when density is below ρc1 or above ρc2, see Fig. 6(a,b). When the density is in the range ρc1 < ρ < ρc2, the system is non-homogeneous because phase separation occurs, see Fig. 6(c).
Figures 7 and 8 show the correlation in the bus route model and in the bidirectional two-lane model. One can see that when the system is homogenous, the correlation decays exponentially (Figs 7(a) and 8(a,b)). However, when the system is not homogenous, the correlation does not decay exponentially, which bends upward in the semi-log plane (Figs 7(b) and 8(c)).
Our studies thus demonstrate that the exponential decay behavior of correlation might be a universal property in a broad class of 1D driven diffusive systems with macroscopic homogeneous state. This might be because there is a specific correlation length, which should be the same for homogeneous cases. However, such one length does not exist for inhomogeneous cases. Of course further efforts are needed upon this issue in the future work.
Methods
Mean Field Analysis
In the mean field analysis, the two equations
can be written easily. The third equation can be obtained via the master equation for P(1, 0) according to the evolution configurations as shown in Fig. 9, which presents the configurations at t and t + 1 as well as the corresponding transition probabilities. The first column shows all those configurations which can give rise to the configurations shown in the second column. The second column lists exhaustive clusters configurations with τi = 1, τi+1 = 0. The third column presents the corresponding transition probabilities from the configurations in the first column to the corresponding configurations in the second column. Thus,
In the 2-cluster mean field analysis, can be expressed mathematically as13,43,44,45
where
is 2-cluster conditional probability. Similarly, and can be expressed as
where
is also 2-cluster conditional probability. So the probabilities of 4-clusters and 3-clusters involved in the right-hand-side of Eq. (11) can be expressed as follows
Note that the first P (1, 1, 0) in Eq. (11) corresponds to , thus
The second P (1, 1, 0) in Eq. (11) corresponds to , thus
which is identical to Eq. (20). This feature can be easily proved in the general case, since
where and t = m − 2 − s. This is independent of the location of i.
Substituting Eqs (17)–(21) into Eq. (11), we have the third equation about x, y, z
Solving the three Eqs (9), (10) and (22), we can obtain x, y, z as shown in Eqs (1)–(3).
Correlation Coefficient Analysis
Now we derive the correlation coefficient μ1. We denote
which can be written as
Since
and
One has
Substituting Eq. (27) into Eq. (5) and simplifying, we can obtain
Since z = 1 − ρ − y and x = ρ − y, one can easily prove
Thus
where
From Eq. (30), we can easily prove that
via mathematical induction method. Substituting and into Eq. (32), one can derive μ1(n), μ2(n), μ3(n) and μ4(n) as shown in Eqs (6)–(8).
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How to cite this article: Hao, Q.-Y. et al. Exponential decay of spatial correlation in driven diffusive system: A universal feature of macroscopic homogeneous state. Sci. Rep. 6, 19652; doi: 10.1038/srep19652 (2016).
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This work is funded by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB725404), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 11422221 and 71222101), the Key Project of Natural Science Research in University of Anhui Province (Grant No. KJ2014A139) and Outstanding Young Talent Support Program in University of Anhui Province. RJ acknowledges the support of Senior Visiting Program of Shanghai Key Laboratory for Contemporary Applied Mathematics.
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