Scaling and universality in coupled driven diffusive models

Abstract

Inspired by the physics of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) a simplified coupled Burgers-like model in one dimension (1d), a generalization of the Burgers model to coupled degrees of freedom, is proposed to describe 1dMHD. In addition to MHD, this model serves as a 1d reduced model for driven binary fluid mixtures. Here we have performed a comprehensive study of the universal properties of the generalized d-dimensional version of the reduced model. We employ both analytical and numerical approaches. In particular, we determine the scaling exponents and the amplitude-ratios of the relevant two-point time-dependent correlation functions in the model. We demonstrate that these quantities vary continuously with the amplitude of the noise cross-correlation. Further our numerical studies corroborate the continuous dependence of long wavelength and long time-scale physics of the model on the amplitude of the noise cross-correlations, as found in our analytical studies. We construct and simulate lattice-gas models of coupled degrees of freedom in 1d, belonging to the universality class of our coupled Burgers-like model, which display similar behavior. We use a variety of numerical (Monte-Carlo and Pseudospectral methods) and analytical (Dynamic Renormalization Group, Self-Consistent Mode-Coupling Theory and Functional Renormalization Group) approaches for our work. The results from our different approaches complement one another. Possible realizations of our results in various nonequilibrium models are discussed.

To appear in JSTAT (2009); 52 pages in JSTAT format. Some figure files have been replaced

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• Novel universality classes of coupled driven diffusive systems
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