Uniform-speed conjecture for a non-escaping impurity in TASEP

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Let an impurity in the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process have jumping rates b1b1 and b2b2, and initially be located at the interface of a 11-00 profile. Assume that b1+b2ot<1b1+b2 ot<1 and condition on the impurity not escaping the rarefaction fan. Uniform-speed conjecture. The asymptotic speed of the impurity is uniformly distributed over the interval

[max⁡(−1,1−2b2),min⁡(1,2b1−1)].[\max(-1,1-2b2),\min(1,2b1-1)].

For b1>1b1>1 or b2>1b2>1, the impurity can escape from the rarefaction fan and acquire speed b1b1 or −b2-b2, respectively; determining the conditional non-uniform distributions remains an open problem, while numerical evidence supports the stated uniform law.

References

Primary source

Luigi Cantini and Ali Zahra, “Single impurity in the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process”, arXiv:2411.08480 (2024).

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