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Slow dynamics in a driven two-lane particle system

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

We study a two-lane model of two-species of particles that perform biased diffusion. Extensive numerical simulations show that when bias q is strong enough oppositely drifting particles form some clusters that block each other. Coarsening of such clusters is very slow and their size increases logarithmically in time. For smaller q particles collapse essentially on a single cluster whose size seems to diverge at a certain value of q=q_c. Simulations show that despite slow coarsening, the model has rather large power-law cooling-rate effects. It makes its dynamics different from glassy systems, but similar to some three-dimensional Ising-type models (gonihedric models).

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@article{arxiv.0903.3919,
  title  = {Slow dynamics in a driven two-lane particle system},
  author = {Adam Lipowski and Dorota Lipowska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3919},
  year   = {2015}
}

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