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Dynamic behavior of anisotropic non-equilibrium driving lattice gases. Ezequiel V. Albano and Gustavo Saracco Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoqu´ımicas Te´oricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), UNLP, CONICET, Casilla de Correo, 16 Sucursal 4, (1900) La Plata, Argentina (February 6, 2008) 2 0 It is shown that intrinsically anisotropic non-equilibrium systems relaxing by a dynamic process 0 exhibit universal critical behavior during their evolution toward non-equilibrium stationary states. 2 An anisotropic scaling anzats for the dynamics is proposed and tested numerically. Relevant critical t exponents can be evaluated self-consistently using both the short- and long-time dynamics frame- c O works. The obtained results allow us to clarify a long-standing controversy about the theoretical description, the universality and the origin of the anisotropy of driven diffusive systems, showing 7 that the standard field theory does not hold and supporting a recently proposed alternative theory. ] PACS numbers: 64.60.Ht, 05.70.Fh, 05.50.+q h c e 4 2 g 3 The development of a theoretical framework for the ∂ φ(r) = −∇ φ + τ ∇ φ + ∆ φ t ⊥ ⊥ ⊥ ⊥ m study of non-equilibrium systems is of vital importance