Structure Factors and Their Distributions in Driven Two-Species Models

TL;DR

This paper investigates the spatial correlations and structure factors in a driven two-species lattice gas, revealing unique non-equilibrium features such as discontinuities and universal distributions in the steady state.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of structure factors in a non-equilibrium lattice gas, highlighting novel singularities and universal distribution forms not seen in equilibrium systems.

Findings

Discontinuity singularity in structure factors at the origin.

Complex crossover behaviors in correlation functions.

Universal asymmetric exponential distributions of structure factors.

Abstract

We study spatial correlations and structure factors in a three-state stochastic lattice gas, consisting of holes and two oppositely ``charged'' species of particles, subject to an ``electric'' field at zero total charge. The dynamics consists of two nearest-neighbor exchange processes, occuring on different times scales, namely, particle-hole and particle-particle exchanges. Using both, Langevin equations and Monte Carlo simulations, we study the steady-state structure factors and correlation functions in the disordered phase, where density profiles are homogeneous. In contrast to equilibrium systems, the average structure factors here show a discontinuity singularity at the origin. The associated spatial correlation functions exhibit intricate crossovers between exponential decays and power laws of different kinds. The full probability distributions of the structure factors are universal asymmetric exponential distributions.