Current statistics in the q-boson zero range process

Abstract

We obtain exact formulas of the first two cumulants of particle current in the q-boson zero range process on a ring via exact perturbative solution of the TQ-equation. The result is represented as an infinite sum of double contour integrals. We perform the asymptotic analysis of the large system size limit N → ∞ of the expressions obtained. For |q| ≠ 1 the leading terms of the second cumulant reproduce the N 3/2 scaling expected for models in the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang universality class. The scaling corresponds to the crossover between the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang and Edwards–Wilkinson universality classes. Under this scaling the sum converges to an integral, resulting in the crossover scaling function derived previously for the asymmetric simple exclusion process and conjectured to be universal.