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Explosive condensation in a mass transport model.

Bartłomiej Waclaw¹, Martin R Evans

¹SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Physical Review Letters

|March 10, 2012

Summary

Clusters of interacting particles spontaneously form and accelerate in a 1D lattice system. This leads to a moving condensate, with condensation becoming instantaneous as system size increases.

Area of Science:

Statistical physics
Condensed matter physics
Many-body systems

Background:

Studying far-from-equilibrium systems is crucial for understanding complex phenomena.
Particle interactions and lattice dynamics influence system behavior.
Spontaneous cluster formation is observed in various physical systems.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate particle behavior in a 1D lattice with interaction-dependent hopping rates.
Analyze the dynamics of spontaneously forming particle clusters.
Characterize the emergent phenomenon of a moving condensate.

Main Methods:

Simulations of a 1D lattice system with interacting particles.
Modeling hopping rates dependent on the number of particles at interacting sites.

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Analysis of cluster formation, acceleration, and condensate properties.

Main Results:

Spontaneously formed particle clusters gain mass and accelerate.
A moving condensate emerges, comprising a significant fraction of the system's mass.
Relaxation time to steady state scales inversely with the logarithm of system size (lnL).

Conclusions:

Condensation in this system is a dynamic, accelerating process.
The observed condensation is significantly faster than in previously studied models.
Instantaneous condensation is predicted for infinite system sizes (L→∞).