Scaling properties of the asymmetric exclusion process with long-range hopping

J. Szavits-Nossan, K. Uzelac

Published 2008-04-25Version 1

The exclusion process in which particles may jump any distance l>=1 with the probability that decays as l^-(1+sigma) is studied from coarse-grained equation for density profile in the limit when the lattice spacing goes to zero. For 1<sigma<2, the usual diffusion term of this equation is replaced by the fractional one, which affects dynamical-scaling properties of the late-time approach to the stationary state. When applied to an open system with totally asymmetric hopping, this approach gives two results: first, it accounts for the sigma-dependent exponent that characterizes the algebraic decay of density profile in the maximum-current phase for 1<sigma<2, and second, it shows that in this region of sigma the exponent is of the mean-field type.