Imparato A, Lecomte V, van Wijland F
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, Building 1520, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2009 Jul;80(1 Pt 1):011131. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011131. Epub 2009 Jul 24.
There exist some boundary-driven open systems with diffusive dynamics whose particle current fluctuations exhibit universal features that belong to the Edwards-Wilkinson universality class. We achieve this result by establishing a mapping, for the system fluctuations, to an equivalent open yet equilibrium-diffusive system. We discuss the possibility of observing dynamic phase transitions using the particle current as a control parameter.