Emergent Hydrodynamics in an Exclusion Process with Long-Range Interactions
Abstract
We study the symmetric Dyson exclusion process (SDEP)--a lattice gas with exclusion and long-range, Coulomb–type interactions that emerge both as the maximal-activity limit of the symmetric exclusion process and as a discrete version of Dyson's Brownian motion on the unitary group. Exploiting an exact ground-state (Doob) transform, we map the stochastic generator of the SDEP onto the spin-1/2 XX quantum chain, which in turn admits a free-fermion representation. At macroscopic scales we conjecture that the SDEP displays ballistic (Eulerian) scaling with a conservation law featuring a current that is a genuinely non-local functional of the density. This non-local one-component description is equivalent to a local two-components “complex Hopf’’ system for finite particle density. Closed evolution formulas allow us to solve the melting of single- and double-block initial states, producing limit shapes and arctic curves that agree with large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations. The model thus offers a tractable example of emergent non-local hydrodynamics driven by long-range interactions.
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BibTeX
@article{zahra2026emergent,
title = {{Emergent Hydrodynamics in an Exclusion Process with Long-Range Interactions}},
author = {Ali Zahra and J. Dubail and Gunther M. Schütz},
journal = {SciPost Physics},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.21468/scipostphys.20.5.141},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-05267122v2},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Emergent Hydrodynamics in an Exclusion Process with Long-Range Interactions
AU - Ali Zahra
AU - J. Dubail
AU - Gunther M. Schütz
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/28
JO - SciPost Physics
DO - 10.21468/scipostphys.20.5.141
UR - https://hal.science/hal-05267122v2
AB - We study the symmetric Dyson exclusion process (SDEP)--a lattice gas with exclusion and long-range, Coulomb–type interactions that emerge both as the maximal-activity limit of the symmetric exclusion process and as a discrete version of Dyson's Brownian motion on the unitary group. Exploiting an exact ground-state (Doob) transform, we map the stochastic generator of the SDEP onto the spin-1/2 XX quantum chain, which in turn admits a free-fermion representation. At macroscopic scales we conjecture that the SDEP displays ballistic (Eulerian) scaling with a conservation law featuring a current that is a genuinely non-local functional of the density. This non-local one-component description is equivalent to a local two-components “complex Hopf’’ system for finite particle density. Closed evolution formulas allow us to solve the melting of single- and double-block initial states, producing limit shapes and arctic curves that agree with large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations. The model thus offers a tractable example of emergent non-local hydrodynamics driven by long-range interactions.
SN - 2542-4653
ER -