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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2004 Dec;70(6):061609. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.061609. Epub 2004 Dec 30.

Condensation and evaporation of mutually repelling particles: Steady states and limit cycles.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

Tapati Dutta, Nikolai Lebovka, S Tarafdar

Affiliations

  1. Physics Department, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata 700016, India.

PMID: 15697383 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.061609

Abstract

We study condensation and evaporation of particles which repel each other. The system evolves through a computer simulation using a simple set of rules on a square lattice. Different results are obtained for a mobile and an immobile surface layer. A two point limit cycle is observed for high temperature and pressure in both cases. Here the coverage oscillates between a high and a low value without ever reaching a steady state. The results for the immobile case depend in addition on the initial coverage.

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