TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of translational symmetry breaking induced by the boundaries in a driven diffusive system
AU - Andersen, Jørgen Vitting
AU - Leung, Kwan-tai
N1 - Copyright (1991) by the American Physical Society.
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - We study the effects of the boundary conditions in a driven diffusive lattice-gas model which is known to display kinetic phase transitions. We find, in the case of attractive interaction, that a boundary-condition-induced symmetry breaking of the translational invariance, along the direction of the external field, destroys the second-order kinetic phase transition. This feature is absent in equilibrium systems. In the repulsive case, the phase diagram and critical properties are probably unaltered.
AB - We study the effects of the boundary conditions in a driven diffusive lattice-gas model which is known to display kinetic phase transitions. We find, in the case of attractive interaction, that a boundary-condition-induced symmetry breaking of the translational invariance, along the direction of the external field, destroys the second-order kinetic phase transition. This feature is absent in equilibrium systems. In the repulsive case, the phase diagram and critical properties are probably unaltered.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.43.8744
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.43.8744
M3 - Journal article
VL - 43
SP - 8744
EP - 8746
JO - Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
JF - Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
SN - 1098-0121
IS - 10
ER -