Modulation of the Nucleation Rate Preexponential in a Low-Temperature Ising System

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Abstract

A metastable lattice gas with nearest-neighbor interactions and continuous-time dynamics is studied using a generalized Becker-Döring approach in the multidimensional space of cluster configurations. The preexponential of the metastable-state lifetime (inverse of nucleation rate) is found to exhibit distinct peaks at integer values of the inverse supersaturation. Peaks are unobservable (infinitely narrow) in the strict limit [Formula presented], but become detectable and eventually dominate at higher temperatures. © 2002 The American Physical Society.

Identifier

0347334736 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.025701

e-ISSN

10797114

ISSN

00319007

Issue

2

Volume

89

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