Hydrodynamics for SSEP with non-reversible slow boundary dynamics: Part II, below the critical regime

TL;DR

This paper proves that the hydrodynamic limit of the symmetric simple exclusion process with non-reversible, fast boundary reservoirs is described by the heat equation with fixed boundary densities, extending previous results to a more challenging regime.

Contribution

It provides a simple proof of the hydrodynamic behavior for the SSEP with fast boundary reservoirs, using duality estimates, in a regime where entropy methods do not apply.

Findings

Hydrodynamic limit is the heat equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions.

Boundary densities are determined by reservoir parameters.

The proof extends the understanding of SSEP with non-reversible boundary dynamics.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to provide a simple proof of the hydrodynamic and hydrostatic behavior of the SSEP in contact with reservoirs which inject and remove particles in a finite size windows at the extremities of the bulk. More precisely, the reservoirs inject/remove particles at/from any point of a window of size $K$ placed at each extremity of the bulk and particles are injected/removed to the first open/occupied position in that window. The reservoirs have slow dynamics, in the sense that they intervene at speed $N^{-\theta}$ w.r.t. the bulk dynamics. In the first part of this article, we treated the case $\theta>1$ for which the entropy method can be adapted. We treat here the case where the boundary dynamics is too fast for the Entropy Method to apply. We prove, using duality estimates inspired by previous work by Erignoux, Landim and Xu, that the hydrodynamic limit is given by the heat equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where the density at the boundaries is fixed by the parameters of the model.