Discrete-time analysis of traveling wave solutions and steady state of a PASEP with open boundaries

Abstract

We consider the dynamics of a single shock in a partially asymmetric simple exclusion process (PASEP) on a finite lattice with open boundaries in the sublattice-parallel updating scheme. We then construct the steady state of the system by considering a linear superposition of these shocks. It is shown that this steady state can also be written in terms of a product of four non-commuting matrices. One of the main results obtained here is that these matrices have exactly the same generic structure as the matrices first introduced in Jafarpour and Masharian (2009 Phys. Rev. E 79 051124) indicating that the steady state of a one-dimensional driven-diffusive system can be written as a linear superposition of product shock measures. It is now easy to explain the two-dimensional matrix representation of the PASEP with parallel dynamics introduced in Essler and Rittenberg (1996 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 29 3375) and Honecker and Peschel (1997 J. Stat. Phys. 88 319).