Nucleation in Systems with Elastic Forces
Materials Science
2009-11-07 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
Systems with long-range interactions when quenced into a metastable state near the pseudo-spinodal exhibit nucleation processes that are quite different from the classical nucleation seen near the coexistence curve. In systems with long-range elastic forces the description of the nucleation process can be quite subtle due to the presence of bulk/interface elastic compatibility constraints. We analyze the nucleation process in a simple 2d model with elastic forces and show that the nucleation process generates critical droplets with a different structure than the stable phase. This has implications for nucleation in many crystal-crystal transitions and the structure of the final state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0107020,
title = {Nucleation in Systems with Elastic Forces},
author = {W. Klein and T. Lookman and A. Saxena and D. Hatch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0107020},
year = {2009}
}