KPZ fluctuations in finite volume
Sylvain Prolhac
SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 81 (2024) · published 12 June 2024
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.81
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Abstract
These lecture notes, adapted from the habilitation thesis of the author, survey in a first part various exact results obtained in the past few decades about KPZ fluctuations in one dimension, with a special focus on finite volume effects describing the relaxation to its stationary state of a finite system starting from a given initial condition. The second part is more specifically devoted to an approach allowing to express in a simple way the statistics of the current in the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process in terms of a contour integral on a compact Riemann surface, whose infinite genus limit leads to KPZ fluctuations in finite volume.