摘要
A totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) has become an essential tool in modeling and analyzing non-equilibrium systems.A wide variety of TASEP models have been developed that are motivated by real-world traffic,biological transport and by the dynamics of the process itself.This paper provides an overview of recent developments in TASEP with inhomogeneity.Some important generalizations and extensions of inhomogeneous TASEP models are reviewed,and several popular mean-field techniques used to analyze the inhomogeneous TASEP models are summarized.A comparison between similar TASEP models under different updating procedures is given.Phase separations in such disordered systems have been identified.The present status of the inhomogeneous TASEP models and areas for future investigations are also described.
A totally asymmetric simple exclusion process （TASEP） has become an essential tool in modeling and analyzing non-equilibrium systems. A wide variety of TASEP models have been developed that are motivated by real-world traffic, biological transport and by the dynamics of the process itself. This paper provides an overview of recent developments in TASEP with inhomogeneity. Some important generalizations and extensions of inhomogeneous TASEP models are reviewed, and several popular mean-field techniques used to analyze the inhomogeneous TASEP models are summarized. A comparison between similar TASEP models under different updating procedures is given. Phase separations in such disordered systems have been identified. The present status of the inhomogeneous TASEP models and areas for future investigations are also described.
基金
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar (41025015)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40974065,10872194 and 11072239)
the Key Project of Natural Science of the Department of Education of Sichuan Province (10ZA110)
关键词
不均匀
不对称
非平衡系统
现实世界
无序系统
模型
非对称
平均场
totally asymmetric simple exclusion process
inhomogeneity
mean-field theory
Monte Carlo simulations
