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Congestion fronts of diffusing particles

Statistical Mechanics 2018-11-14 v1

Abstract

We study two new models of two particle species invading a surface from opposite sides. Collisions of particles of different species lead to the formation of congestion fronts. One of the models implements a reversible process whereas in the other model the congestion front forms irreversibly. For both models we find that the congestion fronts are self-affine but with different roughness exponents. For low densities the system does not congest and we find a phase transition between a phase of freely moving particles and a congestion phase.

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@article{arxiv.1807.02655,
  title  = {Congestion fronts of diffusing particles},
  author = {Bastian Burger and Hans J Herrmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.02655},
  year   = {2018}
}
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