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Juan P Garrahan1,2, Frank Pollmann3,4
1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We study the dynamical large deviations of the classical stochastic symmetric simple exclusion process (SSEP) by means of numerical matrix product states. We show that for half filling, long-time trajectories with a large enough imbalance between the number hops in even and odd bonds of the lattice belong to distinct symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. Using tensor network techniques, we obtain the large deviation (LD) phase diagram in terms of counting fields conjugate to the dynamical activity and the total hop imbalance. We show the existence of high activity trivial and nontrivial SPT phases (classified according to string order parameters) separated by either a critical phase or a critical point. Using the leading eigenstate of the tilted generator, obtained from infinite-system density-matrix renormalization group simulations, we construct a near-optimal dynamics for sampling the LDs, and show that the SPT phases manifest at the level of rare stochastic trajectories. We also show how to extend these results to other filling fractions, and discuss generalizations to asymmetric SEPs.
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