Bose Condensation and Jamming Transitions
Bose Condensation and Jamming Transitions
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 29th September 2002
- Speaker: Professor Martin Evans (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Systems driven out of equilibrium can often exhibit behaviour not seen in systems in thermal equilibrium-- for example in phase transitions in one-dimensional systems. In this talk I will review several 'condensation' transitions that occur when a conserved quantity is driven through the system. Although the condensation is spatial, i.e. a finite fraction of the conserved quantity condenses into a small spatial region, useful comparison can be made with usual Bose-Einstein condensation. The transitions can also be viewed as 'jamming transitions'. Amongst some one-dimensional examples I will discuss the 'Bus Route Model' where the condensation (jamming) corresponds to the clustering together of buses moving along a bus-route. O. J. O'Loan, M.R.Evans, and M.E.Cates Phys. Rev E 58 1404 (1998) M. R. Evans cond-mat/0007293
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