{
  "id": "2002.11556",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2020-02-26T15:13:17.000Z",
  "updated": "2020-02-26T15:13:17.000Z",
  "title": "Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Repulsive Binary Mixtures",
  "authors": [
    "Pedro Antonio Santos-Flórez",
    "Maurice de Koning"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "We consider nonequilibrium phase transitions in classical binary mixtures described by a set of different purely repulsive pair interaction potentials during which an infinite-temperature homogeneous initial phase is instantaneously quenched to zero temperature. It is found that such systems display two kinds of second-order nonequilibrium transition, corresponding to either a conserved or non-conserved order parameter. The type can be controlled by tuning the interactions between unlike particles, with strong inter-species repulsion leading to unmixing, and weak repulsion giving rise to a continuous crystallization process that is barrier-less and produces scale-invariant crystal grain-size distributions. Furthermore, the behavior of the potential-energy function in the neighborhood of zero separation is directly related to the propensity of the continuous ordering transition.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2020-02-26T15:13:17.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "nonequilibrium phase transitions",
      "repulsive binary mixtures",
      "repulsive pair interaction potentials",
      "produces scale-invariant crystal grain-size distributions",
      "infinite-temperature homogeneous initial phase"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}