{
  "id": "cond-mat/9911040",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1999-11-03T22:08:39.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-11-03T22:08:39.000Z",
  "title": "First-order phase transitions in non-equilibrium systems: New perspectives",
  "authors": [
    "Roberto A. Monetti",
    "Alejandro Rozenfeld",
    "Ezequiel V. Albano"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 5 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.dis-nn"
  ],
  "abstract": "First-order irreversible phase transitions (IPT's) between an active regime and an absorbing state are studied in two models by means of both simulations and mean-field stability analysis. Hysteresis around coexistence is the result of the interplay of the length of the interface, its curvature, and a memory effect related to the phase which is being removed. A controversy on the occurrence of scale-invariance is clarified, conciliating the behavior of IPT's with its reversible counterpart.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1999-11-03T22:08:39.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "first-order phase transitions",
      "non-equilibrium systems",
      "perspectives",
      "first-order irreversible phase transitions",
      "mean-field stability analysis"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "1999cond.mat.11040M"
    }
  }
}