Local Resetting in a Bidirectional Transport System

Abstract

Inspired by different stochastic mechanisms, such as the two-sided motion of ribosomes seen during the initiation of mRNA translation, which is backed by their decay, we investigate a totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with open boundaries in a bidirectional setting where two oppositely charged species of particles move opposite to each other and locally reset to the respective entry site. The steady-state characteristics, such as density profiles and phase diagrams, are investigated theoretically under the mean-field framework. The introduction of resetting into the system produces non-trivial effects in the form of two novel asymmetric phases that appear in the phase diagram. The system possesses several different combinations of symmetric phases as well as asymmetric phases for different resetting rates. A rich behavior is observed in the system, emphasizing the occurrence of spontaneous symmetry-breaking phenomena even in the small resetting regime. Moreover, the significance of the resetting rate is analyzed on the domain wall, and it is found that one of the stationary phases with a localized domain wall vanishes for a substantial resetting rate. Due to the interaction of both species at the boundaries, the consequences of the resetting dynamics on the boundary densities are also investigated. All the findings, including finite-system size, are thoroughly validated by the Monte Carlo simulations.