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Generic two-phase coexistence in nonequilibrium systems

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A beautifully simple model introduced a couple of decades ago, Toom’s cellular automaton, revealed that non-equilibrium systems may exhibit generic bistability, i.e. two-phase coexistence over a finite area of the (two-dimensional) phase diagram, in violation of the equilibrium Gibbs phase rule. In this paper we analyse two interfacial models, describing more realistic situations, that share with Toom’s model a phase diagram with a broad region of phase coexistence. An analysis of the interfacial models yields conditions for generic bistability in terms of physically relevant parameters that may be controlled experimentally.

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  1. Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y Computacional, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    M. A. Muñoz & F de los Santos

  2. Departamento de Física da Faculdade de Ciências e Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Gama Pinto, 2, P-1649-003, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

    M M Telo da Gama

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Muñoz, M., de los Santos, F. & Telo da Gama, M. Generic two-phase coexistence in nonequilibrium systems. Eur. Phys. J. B 43, 73–79 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2005-00029-3

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