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Phase transition in a non-conserving driven diffusive system

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

An asymmetric exclusion process comprising positive particles, negative particles and vacancies is introduced. The model is defined on a ring and the dynamics does not conserve the number of particles. We solve the steady state exactly and show that it can exhibit a continuous phase transition in which the density of vacancies decreases to zero. The model has no absorbing state and furnishes an example of a one-dimensional phase transition in a homogeneous non-conserving system which does not belong to the absorbing state universality classes.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0204522,
  title  = {Phase transition in a non-conserving driven diffusive system},
  author = {M. R. Evans and Y. Kafri and E. Levine and D. Mukamel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0204522},
  year   = {2009}
}