Freezing by Heating in a Driven Mesoscopic System

Details Freezing by Heating in a Driven Mesoscopic System Freezing by Heating in a Driven Mesoscopic System

1999-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9904326v2

Physical Review Letters 84, 1240-1243 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

For related work see http://www.theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/helbing.html and http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1240

We investigate a simple model corresponding to particles driven in opposite directions and interacting via a repulsive potential. The particles move off-lattice on a periodic strip and are subject to random forces as well. We show that this model - which can be considered as a continuum version of some driven diffusive systems - exhibits a paradoxial, new kind of transition called here ``freezing by heating''. One interesting feature of this transition is that a crystallized state with a higher total energy is obtained from a fluid state by increasing the amount of fluctuations.

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