Phase transition in 2D partially asymmetric simple exclusion process with two species

Abstract

The dynamics of two species of particles undergoing asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) on the 2D lattice are investigated in this paper. A sharp transition from moving phase to jamming phase was shown under periodic boundary conditions. We have developed a mean field analysis for the moving phase by extending the method of [] and this produces good agreement with simulation results. Two types of jamming phase were observed. In the first type of jamming phase, some particles at the border of the jamming cluster could move back and forth due to the ASEP rule. The first type of jamming phase reduces to the 1D ASEP with a barrier at the boundary of the lattice. We also have analyzed the average hops for the first type of jamming phase by analyzing the 1D ASEP model. The analytical results agree with the simulation results well. Under open boundary conditions, the system exhibits two phases when forward hopping probability q is larger than 0.5. The particles form a wall at the entrance when q is smaller than 0.5. The dependence of the average velocity, the density and the flow rate on the injection probability in the moving phase have also been obtained through mean field analysis.