Fluctuation-induced first-order transition in a nonequilibrium steady state

DOI10.1023/A:1018697024371zbMATH Open0968.82019arXivcond-mat/9910351OpenAlexW2997080345MaRDI QIDQ1581712FDOQ1581712

Authors: Klaus Oerding, Jean-Pierre Leroy, H. J. Hilhorst, Frédéric Van Wijland 

Publication date: 8 October 2000

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present the first example of a phase transition in a nonequilibrium steady-state that can be argued analytically to be first order. The system of interest is a two-species reaction-diffusion problem whose control parameter is the total density ho. Mean-field theory predicts a second-order transition between two stationary states at a critical density ho= ho_c. We develop a phenomenological picture that, instead, below the upper critical dimension d_c=4, predicts a first-order transition. This picture is confirmed by hysteresis found in numerical simulations, and by the study of a renormalization-group improved equation of state. The latter approach is inspired by the Weinberg-Coleman mechanism in QED.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9910351

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zbMATH Keywords

nonequilibrium steady statefirst-order transitionreacton-diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

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