Stationary fluctuations for an exclusion process with mass and energy conservation

Abstract

We introduce a novel exclusion process with two conservation laws, mass and energy, designed to mimic the essential features of continuous systems like interacting oscillators within the framework of interacting particle systems. This distinguishes our model from conventional multi-species processes where only particle numbers are conserved. As a basis for our fluctuation analysis, we first show that applying nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics (NFH) to this model reveals a wide variety of universality classes depending on the parameter choices. The main objective of this work is to study the stationary fluctuations of these conserved quantities. For a suitable choice of parameters, we rigorously show that the fluctuation fields converge to uncoupled stochastic Burgers equations (SBE) in the scaling limit. The proof relies on the second-order Boltzmann-Gibbs principle that we establish for this model, along with the spectral gap estimate and the equivalence of ensembles. Of independent interest is our general proof of the diagonalizability of the Jacobian matrix for the macroscopic current with distinct real eigenvalues. While this property is often taken as given in the physics literature, we establish it rigorously for multi-component systems even when the eigenvectors cannot be explicitly computed, offering a firm mathematical foundation for a broad class of models.