ABSTRACT
Nonequilibrium Brownian systems can be described using a creation and annihilation operator formalism for classical indistinguishable particles. This formalism has recently been used to derive a many-body master equation for Brownian particles on a lattice with interactions of arbitrary strength and range. One advantage of this formalism is the possibility of using solution methods for analogous many-body quantum systems. In this paper, we adapt the Gutzwiller approximation for the quantum Bose-Hubbard model to the many-body master equation for interacting Brownian particles in a lattice in the large-particle limit. Using the adapted Gutzwiller approximation, we numerically explore the complex behavior of nonequilibrium steady-state drift and number fluctuations throughout the full range of interaction strengths and densities for on-site and nearest-neighbor interactions.
ABSTRACT
Employing a creation and annihilation operator formulation, we derive an approximate many-body master equation describing discrete hopping from the more general continuous description of Brownian motion on a deep-well nonequilibrium periodic potential. The many-body master equation describes interactions of arbitrary strength and range arising from a "top-hat" two-body interaction potential. We show that this master equation reduces to the well-known asymmetric simple exclusion process and the zero range process in certain regimes. We also use the creation and annihilation operator formalism to derive results for the steady-state drift and the number fluctuations in special cases, including the unexplored limit of weak interparticle interactions.
