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Long-Range Order in a Quasi One-Dimensional Non-Equilibrium Three-State Lattice Gas

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v2 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

Biased diffusion of two species with conserved dynamics on a 2xL periodic lattice is studied via Monte Carlo simulations. In contrast to its simple one-dimensional version on a ring, this quasi one-dimensional model surprisingly exhibits phase separation in its steady state, which is characterized by one macroscopic particle cluster. We study the order parameter and the cluster-size distributions as a function of the system size L, to support the above picture.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9808296,
  title  = {Long-Range Order in a Quasi One-Dimensional Non-Equilibrium Three-State Lattice Gas},
  author = {G. Korniss and B. Schmittmann and R. K. P. Zia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9808296},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures included, typeset using EURO-TEX, Minor revisions and new references added