Random walk with horizontal and cyclic currents
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| author | Li, Joanna Gerry, Matthew Klich, Israel Segal, Dvira |
| author_facet | Li, Joanna Gerry, Matthew Klich, Israel Segal, Dvira |
| contents | We construct a minimal two-chain random walk model and study the information that fluctuations of the flux and higher cumulants can reveal about the model: its structure, parameters, and whether it operates under nonequilibrium conditions. The two coupled chains allow for both horizontal and cyclic transport. We capture these processes by deriving the cumulant generating function of the system, which characterizes both horizontal and cyclic transport in the long time limit. First, we show that either the horizontal or the cyclic currents, along with their higher-order cumulants, can be used to unravel the intrinsic structure and parameters of the model. Second, we investigate the "zero current" situation, in which the {\it horizontal} current vanishes. We find that fluctuations of the horizontal current reveal the nonequilibrium condition at intermediate bias, while the cyclic current remains nonzero throughout. We also show that in nonequilibrium scenarios close to the zero {\it horizontal} current limit, the entropy production rate is more tightly lower-bounded by the relative noise of the {\it cyclic} current, and vice versa. Finally, simulations of transport before the steady state sets in allow for the extraction of the interchain hopping rate. Our study, illustrating the information concealed in fluctuations, could see applications in chemical networks, cellular processes, and charge and energy transport materials. |
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| spellingShingle | Random walk with horizontal and cyclic currents Li, Joanna Gerry, Matthew Klich, Israel Segal, Dvira Statistical Mechanics We construct a minimal two-chain random walk model and study the information that fluctuations of the flux and higher cumulants can reveal about the model: its structure, parameters, and whether it operates under nonequilibrium conditions. The two coupled chains allow for both horizontal and cyclic transport. We capture these processes by deriving the cumulant generating function of the system, which characterizes both horizontal and cyclic transport in the long time limit. First, we show that either the horizontal or the cyclic currents, along with their higher-order cumulants, can be used to unravel the intrinsic structure and parameters of the model. Second, we investigate the "zero current" situation, in which the {\it horizontal} current vanishes. We find that fluctuations of the horizontal current reveal the nonequilibrium condition at intermediate bias, while the cyclic current remains nonzero throughout. We also show that in nonequilibrium scenarios close to the zero {\it horizontal} current limit, the entropy production rate is more tightly lower-bounded by the relative noise of the {\it cyclic} current, and vice versa. Finally, simulations of transport before the steady state sets in allow for the extraction of the interchain hopping rate. Our study, illustrating the information concealed in fluctuations, could see applications in chemical networks, cellular processes, and charge and energy transport materials. |
| title | Random walk with horizontal and cyclic currents |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03629 |