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An asymmetric stochastic process describing the avalanche dynamics on a ring is proposed. A general kinetic equation which incorporates the exclusion and avalanche processes is considered. The Bethe ansatz method is used to calculate the generating function for the total distance covered by all particles. It gives the average velocity of particles which exhibits a phase transition from an intermittent to continuous flow. We calculated also higher cumulants and the large deviation function for the particle flow. The latter has the universal form obtained earlier for the asymmetric exclusion process and conjectured to be common for all models of the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang universality class.
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Povolotsky, A.M., Priezzhev, V.B. & Hu, CK. The Asymmetric Avalanche Process. Journal of Statistical Physics 111, 1149–1182 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023048115250
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