Universality in coupled stochastic Burgers systems with degenerate flux Jacobian

Abstract

In our contribution we study stochastic models in one space dimension with two conservation laws. One model is the coupled continuum stochastic Burgers equation, for which each current is a sum of quadratic nonlinearities, linear diffusion, and spacetime white noise. The second model is a two-lane stochastic lattice gas. As distinct from previous studies, the two conserved densities are tuned such that the flux Jacobian, a 2 × 2 matrix, has coinciding eigenvalues. In the steady state, spacetime correlations of the conserved fields and the time-integrated currents at the origin are investigated. For a particular choice of couplings, the dynamical exponent 3/2 is confirmed. Furthermore, at these couplings, the continuum stochastic Burgers equation and lattice gas are demonstrated to be in the same universality class.