Generic rules for No-equilibrium
phase transition.
I am not a trafic controler nor do
I like trafic jams. This picture represents
that a "jamed state" can spontanuously occur within a
"freely moving state"
when certain parameter (velocity of cars or breaking of trafic
rules) change.
This is like a phase transition. Unlike equilibrium phase transition,
here the
jamed configuration can still move with certain velocity.
These are
are non-equilibrium phase transitions (there are amny other
examples, I will add
later).
In equilibrium, we have certain guidelines on 'what kind of system can
exibit phase transition'. Could we say anything generic
about non-equilibrium
phase transitions ?
