The onset of instabilities in nonequilibrium systems |
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Authors: | G. Nicolis M. Malek-Mansour A. Van Nypelseer K. Kitahara |
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Affiliation: | (1) Faculté des Sciences, Université de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;(2) Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Abstract: | ![]() The nonlinear master equation previously proposed by Malek-Mansour and Nicolis is applied to the analysis of unstable transitions leading to temporally or spatially organized patterns. Thecorrelation length of the destabilizing fluctuations is determined, and a number of striking analogies with equilibrium phase transitions are pointed out. |
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Keywords: | Master equation chemical kinetics critical phenomena nonequilibrium instabilities |
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