$N$-tag Probability Law of the Symmetric Exclusion Process

Alexis Poncet, Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Démery, Gleb Oshanin

Published 2018-01-24Version 1

The Symmetric Exclusion Process (SEP), in which particles hop symmetrically on a discrete line with hard-core constraints, is a paradigmatic model of subdiffusion in confined systems. This anomalous behavior is a direct consequence of strong spatial correlations induced by the requirement that the particles cannot overtake each other. Even if this fact has been recognised qualitatively for a long time, up to now there is no full quantitative determination of these correlations. Here we study the joint probability distribution of an arbitrary number of tagged particles in the SEP. We determine analytically the large time limit of all cumulants for an arbitrary density of particles, and their full dynamics in the high density limit. In this limit, we unveil a universal scaling form shared by the cumulants and obtain the time-dependent large deviation function of the problem.