Drifting Spatial Structures in a System with Oppositely Driven Species

Details Drifting Spatial Structures in a System with Oppositely Driven Species Drifting Spatial Structures in a System with Oppositely Driven Species

1997-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9702038v1

Phys. Rev. E 56, 308 (1997)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, RevTeX, 7 EPS figures included, submitted to Phys Rev E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.308

A system consisting of two conservative, oppositely driven species of particles with excluded volume interaction alone is studied on a torus. The system undergoes a phase transition between a homogeneous and an inhomogeneous phase, as the particle densities are varied. Focusing on the inhomogeneous phase with generally unequal numbers of the two species, the spatial structure is found to drift counter-intuitively against the majority species at a constant velocity that depends on the external field, system size, and particle densities. Such dependences are derived from a coarse-grained continuum theory, and a microscopic mechanism for the drift is explained. With virtually no tuning parameter, various theoretical predictions, notably a field-system-size scaling, agree extremely well with the simulations.

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