Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2498–2501 (2001)Boundary Induced Phase Transitions in Driven Lattice Gases with Metastable StatesReceived 6 April 2000; published in the issue dated 19 March 2001 We study the effect of metastability onto boundary induced phase transitions in a driven lattice gas. The phase diagram for open systems, parametrized by the input and output rates, consists of two regions corresponding to the free flow and jammed phase. Both have been entirely characterized. The microscopic states in the high density phase are shown to have an interesting striped structure, which undergoes a coarsening process and survives in the thermodynamic limit. © 2001 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2498
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2498
PACS:
05.70.Ln, 02.50.Ey, 05.60.Cd, 45.70.Vn
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