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Anomalous relaxation and hyperuniform fluctuations in center-of-mass conserving systems with broken time-reversal
Anirban Mukherjee1,2, Dhiraj Tapader1, Animesh Hazra1
1Department of Physics of Complex Systems, <a href="https://ror.org/00kz6qq24">S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences</a>, Block JD, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India.
Abstract:
We study the Oslo model, a paradigm for absorbing-phase transition, on a one-dimensional ring of L sites with a fixed global density ρ[over ¯]; we consider the system strictly above critical density ρ_{c}. Notably, microscopic dynamics conserve both mass and center of mass (CoM), but lack time-reversal symmetry. We show that, despite having highly constrained dynamics due to CoM conservation, the system exhibits diffusive relaxation away from criticality and superdiffusive relaxation near criticality. Furthermore, the CoM conservation severely restricts particle movement, causing the mobility-a transport coefficient analogous to the conductivity for charged particles-to vanish exactly. Indeed, the steady-state temporal growth of current fluctuation is qualitatively different from that observed in diffusive systems with a single conservation law. Remarkably, far from criticality where the relative density Δ=ρ[over ¯]-ρ_{c}≫ρ_{c}, the second cumulant, or the variance, 〈Q_{i}^{2}(T,Δ)〉_{c}, of current Q_{i} across the ith bond up to time T in the steady-state saturates as 〈Q_{i}^{2}〉_{c}≃Σ_{Q}^{2}(Δ)-constT^{-1/2}; near criticality, it grows subdiffusively as 〈Q_{i}^{2}〉_{c}∼T^{α}, with 0<α<1/2, and eventually saturates to Σ_{Q}^{2}(Δ). Interestingly, the asymptotic current fluctuation Σ_{Q}^{2}(Δ) is a nonmonotonic function of Δ: It diverges as Σ_{Q}^{2}(Δ)∼Δ^{2} for Δ≫ρ_{c} and Σ_{Q}^{2}(Δ)∼Δ^{-δ}, with δ>0, for Δ→0^{+}. Using a mass-conservation principle, we exactly determine the exponents δ=2(1-1/ν_{⊥})/ν_{⊥} and α=δ/zν_{⊥} via the correlation-length and dynamic exponents, ν_{⊥} and z, respectively. Finally, we show that in the steady state the self-diffusion coefficient D_{s}(ρ[over ¯]) of tagged particles is connected to activity through the relation D_{s}(ρ[over ¯])=a(ρ[over ¯])/ρ[over ¯].
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