Entropy-driven phase transitions with influence of the field-dependent diffusion coefficient

Abstract

We present a comprehensive study of the phase transitions in the single-field reaction-diffusion stochastic systems with field-dependent mobility of a power-low form and the internal fluctuations. Using variational principles and mean-field theory it was shown that the noise can sustain spatial patterns and leads to disordering phase transitions. We have shown that the phase transitions can be of critical or non-critical character.

15 pages, 6 figures

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