Non-equilibrium collective transport in an Ising chain with Kawasaki dynamics

Source

Proceedings of the 33rd Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Congress, University of Northern Philippines, Vigan City, 3–6 Jun 2015, SPP-2015-5C-03.

Abstract

An Ising chain with Kawasaki spin-exchange dynamics in contact with a heat bath with temporal periodic variation between two temperatures is considered. This environment prohibits the system from attaining thermal equilibrium. We demonstrate here via Monte Carlo simulations that such a case exhibits a Brownian motor type collective transport. This confirms our hypothesis that a cycle of cluster and dispersion of domains with fine tuned parameters, in effect, results into spin transport.