Exact Solution of the F-TASEP

Abstract

We obtain the exact solution of the facilitated totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (F-TASEP) in 1D. The model is closely related to the conserved lattice gas (CLG) model and to some cellular automaton traffic models. In the F-TASEP a particle at site $j$ in $\mathbb{Z}$ jumps, at integer times, to site $j+1$, provided site $j-1$ is occupied and site $j+1$ is empty. When started with a Bernoulli product measure at density $\rho$ the system approaches a stationary state. This non-equilibrium steady state (NESS) has phase transitions at $\rho=1/2$ and $\rho=2/3$. The different density regimes $0<\rho<1/2$, $1/2<\rho<2/3$, and $2/3<\rho<1$ exhibit many surprising properties; for example, the pair correlation $g(j)=\langle\eta(i)\eta(i+j)\rangle$ satisfies, for all $n\in\mathbb{Z}$, $\sum_{j=kn+1}^{k(n+1)}g(j)=k\rho^2$, with $k=2$ when $0\le\rho\le1/2$, $k=6$ when $1/2\le\rho\le2/3$, and $k=3$ when $2/3\le\rho\le1$. The quantity $\lim_{L\to\infty}V_L/L$, where $V_L$ is the variance in the number of particles in an interval of length L, jumps discontinuosly from $\rho(1-\rho)$ to 0 when $\rho\to1/2$ and when $\rho\to2/3$.