Renormalized Theory of Infinitely Driven Lattice Gases

Abstract

We use field theoretic renormalization group methods to study the critical behavior of a recently proposed Langevin equation for driven lattice gases under infinitely fast drive. We perform an expansion around the upper critical dimension, $d_c=4$, and obtain the critical exponents to one loop order. The main features of the two loop calculation are also outlined. The renormalized theory is shown to exhibit a behavior different from the standard field theory for the DLG with finite driving, {\em i.e.} it is not mean field like.

To appear in Phys. Rev. E. 3 figures