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arxiv physics/0605229 v1 pith:BAS5YTST submitted 2006-05-25 physics.bio-ph cond-mat.stat-mechq-bio.QM

Competition of coarsening and shredding of clusters in a driven diffusive lattice gas

classification physics.bio-ph cond-mat.stat-mechq-bio.QM
keywords modelclusterscoarseningmovingoppositelyparticlesantsbi-directional
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We investigate a driven diffusive lattice gas model with two oppositely moving species of particles. The model is motivated by bi-directional traffic of ants on a pre-existing trail. A third species, corresponding to pheromones used by the ants for communication, is not conserved and mediates interactions between the particles. Here we study the spatio-temporal organization of the particles. In the uni-directional variant of this model it is known to be determined by the formation and coarsening of ``loose clusters''. For our bi-directional model, we show that the interaction of oppositely moving clusters is essential. In the late stages of evolution the cluster size oscillates because of a competition between their `shredding' during encounters with oppositely moving counterparts and subsequent "coarsening" during collision-free evolution. We also establish a nontrivial dependence of the spatio-temporal organization on the system size.

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