Exact steady states in the asymmetric simple exclusion process beyond one dimension

The asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) is a paradigmatic nonequilibrium many-body system that describes the asymmetric random walk of particles with exclusion interactions in a lattice. Although the ASEP is recognized as an exactly solvable model, most of the exact results obtained so far are limited to one-dimensional systems. Here, we construct the exact steady states of the ASEP with closed and periodic boundary conditions in arbitrary dimensions. This is achieved through the concept of transition decomposition, which enables the treatment of the multidimensional ASEP as a composite of the one-dimensional ASEPs. Published by the American Physical Society 2024