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Main Authors: Kumar, Premashis, Esposito, Massimiliano, Aslyamov, Timur
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12955
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author Kumar, Premashis
Esposito, Massimiliano
Aslyamov, Timur
author_facet Kumar, Premashis
Esposito, Massimiliano
Aslyamov, Timur
contents We investigate a nonideal, thermodynamically consistent Brusselator reaction-diffusion (RD) system that explicitly incorporates molecular interactions among species in both the diffusion process and the underlying chemical reaction network. Within this framework, we systematically revisit the Cross-Hohenberg classification of instabilities to assess the feasibility and characteristics of the various types of instability arising from the interplay between entropic and energetic contributions. Our analysis demonstrates that only type I and type III instabilities (the Cross-Hohenberg classification) can occur in this system; Energetic contributions do not explicitly generate instabilities, but may implicitly control their occurrence through their influence on the fixed-point (steady-state) concentrations. In cases where instabilities of different types coexist, we show that the resulting patterns are highly sensitive to the relative strengths of the competing instabilities.
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spellingShingle Classification of instabilities for the nonideal Brusselator model
Kumar, Premashis
Esposito, Massimiliano
Aslyamov, Timur
Statistical Mechanics
We investigate a nonideal, thermodynamically consistent Brusselator reaction-diffusion (RD) system that explicitly incorporates molecular interactions among species in both the diffusion process and the underlying chemical reaction network. Within this framework, we systematically revisit the Cross-Hohenberg classification of instabilities to assess the feasibility and characteristics of the various types of instability arising from the interplay between entropic and energetic contributions. Our analysis demonstrates that only type I and type III instabilities (the Cross-Hohenberg classification) can occur in this system; Energetic contributions do not explicitly generate instabilities, but may implicitly control their occurrence through their influence on the fixed-point (steady-state) concentrations. In cases where instabilities of different types coexist, we show that the resulting patterns are highly sensitive to the relative strengths of the competing instabilities.
title Classification of instabilities for the nonideal Brusselator model
topic Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12955