Nonequilibrium phase transitions in sheared colloids

Rangan Lahiri and Sriram Ramaswamy

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1996, vol. 224, issue 1, 84-92

Abstract: Colloidal crystals under steady shear flow are known to melt by a first order transition. At high shear rates, molecular dynamics simulations show a reentrant transition by which the system orders back into a flowing crystalline phase. We describe here a simple two variable model which captures both these phase transitions. In doing so we propose a prescription for identifying the stable phase in nonequilibrium steady states which should apply to a variety of other problems.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(95)00353-3

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