Early sedimentation and crossover kinetics in an off-critical phase-separating liquid mixture
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
Early sedimentation in a liquid mixture off-critically quenched in its miscibility gap was investigated with a light attenuation technique. The time evolution of the droplets distribution is characteristic of an emulsion coalescing by gravitational collisions. This sedimentation behaviour has given access to the phase-separating kinetics and a crossover on the way toward equilibrium was observed, which separates free growth from conserved order-parameter coarsening with a crossover time fitting well to theoretical predictions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402125,
title = {Early sedimentation and crossover kinetics in an off-critical phase-separating liquid mixture},
author = {Jean Colombani and Jacques Bert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402125},
year = {2009}
}