Super-diffusion and crossover from diffusive to anomalous transport in a one-dimensional system

We study transport in a one-dimensional lattice system with two conserved quantities - 'volume' and energy. Considering a slowly evolving local equilibrium state that is slightly deviated from an underlying global equilibrium, we estimate the correction to the local equilibrium distribution. This correction arises mainly through the space-time correla-tions of some local currents. In the continuum limit, we show that the local equilibrium distribution along with the correction yields drift-diffusion equation for the 'volume' and super-diffusion equation for the energy in the linear response regime as macro-scopic hydrodynamics as one would obtain from non-linear fluctuating hydrodynamic theory. We find explicit expression of the super-diffusion equation. Further, we find dif-fusive correction to the super-diffusive evolution. Such a correction allows us to study a crossover from diffusive to anomalous transport. We demonstrate this crossover numer-ically through the spreading of an initially localized heat pulse in equilibrium as well as through the system size scaling of the stationary current in non-equilibrium steady state.

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We study transport in a one-dimensional lattice system with conserved quantities of 'volume' and energy. By considering a slowly evolving local equilibrium state, we estimate the correction to the local equilibrium distribution caused by space-time correlations of local currents. In the continuum limit, we derive drift-diffusion equation for 'volume' and super-diffusion equation for energy, showing a crossover from diffusive to anomalous transport.