{
  "id": "1206.0290",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-06-01T19:51:49.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-06-01T19:51:49.000Z",
  "title": "Exchange of stability as a function of system size in a nonequilibrium system",
  "authors": [
    "Sorin Tanase-Nicola",
    "David K. Lubensky"
  ],
  "comment": "7 pages, 4 figures. Supporting Material included in same file with main text",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.86.040103",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "physics.chem-ph",
    "q-bio.MN"
  ],
  "abstract": "In equilibrium systems with short-ranged interactions, the relative stability of different thermodynamic states generally does not depend on system size (as long as this size is larger than the interaction range). Here, we use a large deviations approach to show that, in contrast, different states can exchange stability as system size is varied in a driven, bistable reaction-diffusion system. This striking effect is related to a shift from a spatially uniform to a nonuniform transition state and should generically be possible in a wide range of nonequilibrium physical and biological systems.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-06-01T19:51:49.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "05.40.-a",
      "05.10.Gg",
      "82.40.Bj",
      "87.10.Mn"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "system size",
      "nonequilibrium system",
      "large deviations approach",
      "nonuniform transition state",
      "wide range"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review E",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Oct",
      "volume": 86,
      "number": 4,
      "pages": "040103"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012PhRvE..86d0103T"
    }
  }
}