Lahiri, Rangan ; Barma, Mustansir ; Ramaswamy, Sriram (2000) Strong phase separation in a model of sedimenting lattices Physical Review E, 61 (2). pp. 1648-1658. ISSN 1063-651X
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Official URL: http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v61/i2/p1648_1
Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.61.1648
Abstract
We study the steady state resulting from instabilities in crystals driven through a dissipative medium, for instance, a colloidal crystal which is steadily sedimenting through a viscous fluid. The problem involves two coupled fields, the density; the tilt; the latter describes the orientation of the mass tensor with respect to the driving field. We map the problem to a one-dimensional lattice model with two coupled species of spins evolving through conserved dynamics. In the steady state of this model each of the two species shows macroscopic phase separation. This phase separation is robust; survives at all temperatures or noise levels- hence the term strong phase separation. This sort of phase separation can be understood in terms of barriers to remixing which grow with system size; result in a logarithmically slow approach to the steady state. In a particular symmetric limit, it is shown that the condition of detailed balance holds with a Hamiltonian which has infinite-ranged interactions, even though the initial model has only local dynamics. The long-ranged character of the interactions is responsible for phase separation, for the fact that it persists at all temperatures. Possible experimental tests of the phenomenon are discussed.
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