# Drifting Spatial Structures in a System with Oppositely Driven Species

Source: [Drifting Spatial Structures in a System with Oppositely Driven Species](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa24602c2a3760193a3527>)

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Authors: K.-t. Leung, R. K. P. Zia

Published: 1997-02-05T04:41:54.000Z

## Abstract

A system consisting of two conservative, oppositely driven species of particles with excluded volume interaction alone is studied on a torus. The system undergoes a phase transition between a homogeneous and an inhomogeneous phase, as the particle densities are varied. Focusing on the inhomogeneous phase with generally unequal numbers of the two species, the spatial structure is found to drift counter-intuitively against the majority species at a constant velocity that depends on the external field, system size, and particle densities. Such dependences are derived from a coarse-grained continuum theory, and a microscopic mechanism for the drift is explained. With virtually no tuning parameter, various theoretical predictions, notably a field-system-size scaling, agree extremely well with the simulations.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9702038>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/9702038.pdf>)