Critical dynamics of the jamming transition in one-dimensional nonequilibrium lattice-gas models

Abstract

We consider several one-dimensional driven lattice gas models that show a phase transition in the stationary state between a high-density fluid phase in which the particles are homogeneously distributed and a low-density jammed phase where a hole cluster of macroscopic length forms in front of a particle. Using a hydrodynamic equation for an interface growth model obtained from the driven lattice gas models of interest here, we find that in the fluid phase, the roughness exponent and the dynamic exponent that, respectively, characterise the scaling of the saturation width and the relaxation time of the interface with the system size are given by the KPZ exponents. However, at the critical point, we show analytically that when the equal time density-density correlation function decays slower than inverse distance, the roughness exponent varies continuously with a parameter in the hop rates but it is one half otherwise. Using these results and numerical simulations for the density-density autocorrelation function, we further find that the dynamic exponent $z=3/2$ in all the cases.