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Phase transitions in a driven lattice gas with repulsive interactions
Physical Review Letters (1989)
  • K.-T. Leung, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • R. K. P. Zia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Abstract

We study a lattice gas with repulsive nearest-neighbor interactions driven to steady state by an external electric field E. Using Monte Carlo techniques on a two-dimensional system, we find, in the E-T plane, a line of second-order transitions joining a line of first-order ones, at a point which is probably tricritical. From a field theoretical model, we show that the operator associated with E is naively irrelevant for critical behavior. This expectation is borne out by the Monte Carlo result β=(1/8.

Publication Date
April 10, 1989
Publisher Statement
Copyright 1989 American Physical Society. Posted with permission.
Citation Information
K.-T. Leung, Beate Schmittmann and R. K. P. Zia. "Phase transitions in a driven lattice gas with repulsive interactions" Physical Review Letters Vol. 62 (1989)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/beate_schmittmann/31/