Virginia TechAndersen, J. V.Leung, K. T.2014-05-072014-05-071991-04Andersen, J. V.; Leung, K. T., "Effects of translational symmetry breaking induced by the boundaries in a driven diffusive system," Phys. Rev. B 43, 8744(R) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.43.87440163-1829http://hdl.handle.net/10919/47837We study the effects of the boundary conditions in a driven diffusive lattice-gas model which is known to display kinetic phase transitions. We find, in the case of attractive interaction, that a boundary-condition-induced symmetry breaking of the translational invariance, along the direction of the external field, destroys the second-order kinetic phase transition. This feature is absent in equilibrium systems. In the repulsive case, the phase diagram and critical properties are probably unaltered.en-USIn Copyrightlattice-gas modelsphase-transitionsequilibriumstatesphysics, condensed matterArticle - Refereedhttp://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.43.8744https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.43.8744