Large compact clusters and fast dynamics in coupled nonequilibrium systems.
We demonstrate particle clustering on macroscopic scales in a coupled nonequilibrium system where two species of particles are advected by a fluctuating landscape and modify the landscape in the process. The phase diagram generated by varying the particle-landscape coupling, valid for all particle densities and in both one and two dimensions, shows novel nonequilibrium phases. While particle species are completely phase separated, the landscape develops macroscopically ordered regions coexisting with a disordered region, resulting in coarsening and steady state dynamics on time scales which grow algebraically with size, not seen earlier in systems with pure domains.
Department of Theoretical Sciences, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700098, India.
Shauri
S
Chakraborty
Department of Theoretical Sciences, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700098, India.
Sukla
S
Pal
Department of Theoretical Sciences, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700098, India.
Sakuntala
S
Chatterjee
TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, 21 Brundavan Colony, Osman Sagar Road, Narsingi, Hyderabad 500075, India.
Mustansir
M
Barma