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| Journal Article | PreJuSER-46248 |
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2005
EDP Sciences
Les Ulis
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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/22931 doi:10.1209/epl/i2005-10026-2
Abstract: The effective interaction between two probe particles in a one-dimensional driven system is studied. The analysis is carried out using an asymmetric simple exclusion process with nearest-neighbor interactions. It is found that the driven fluid mediates an effective long-range attraction between the two probes, with a force that decays at large distances x as -b/x, where b is a function of the interaction parameters. Depending on the amplitude b, the two probes may form one of three states: a) an unbound state, where the distance grows diffusively with time; b) a weakly bound state, in which the distance grows sub-diffusively; and c) a strongly bound state, where the average distance stays finite in the long-time limit. Similar results are found for the behavior of any finite number of probes.
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