Phase transitions in one-dimensional driven systems and the zero-range process

Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar

Phase transitions in one-dimensional driven systems and the zero-range process

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 17th November 2003
  • Speaker: Tom Hanney (University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

Driven systems provide examples of nonequilibrium steady states which can undergo phase transitions, even in one dimension. One class of such transitions is from a disordered to a phase separated state. I will discuss a recent conjecture proposing a criterion for the existence of phase separation in one dimensional driven systems which is believed to be widely applicable. This conjecture emerges from the correspondence between driven diffusive systems and the zero-range process - an exactly solvable model of interacting particles diffusing on a lattice.

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