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Critical properties of a randomly driven diffusive system
Physical Review Letters (1991)
  • Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • R. K. P. Zia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Abstract

We consider a system of interacting particles, diffusing under the influence of both thermal noise and a random, external electric field which acts in a subspace of m dimensions. In the nonequilibrium steady state, the net current is zero. When the interparticle interaction is short ranged and attractive, a second-order phase transition is expected. Analyzing this system in field-theoretic terms, we find the upper critical dimension to be 4-m and its behavior to fall outside the universality classes of the equilibrium Ising model and the usual driven diffusive system. A new fixed point and critical exponents are computed.

Publication Date
January 21, 1991
Publisher Statement
Copyright 1991 American Physical Society. Posted with permission.
Citation Information
Beate Schmittmann and R. K. P. Zia. "Critical properties of a randomly driven diffusive system" Physical Review Letters Vol. 66 (1991)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/beate_schmittmann/30/