Although a driven colloidal suspension is not at equilibrium, a systematic study shows that such a system can still undergo a phase transition — albeit to a randomly organized state.
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Frenkel, D. Ordered chaos. Nature Phys 4, 345–346 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys973
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