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Pairwise particle-exchange model on a linear lattice is solved exactly by a new rate-equation method. Lattice sites are occupied by particles A and B which can exchange irreversibly provided the local energy in reduced. Thus, the model…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 Vladimir Privman

An existence result is proved for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial conditions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

We study a conservative stochastic lattice dynamics (Kawasaki dynamics) in contact everywhere in the bulk with a heat bath. Particles interact via an Ising Hamiltonian and phase separation occurs at low temperature. We drive the system out…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-22 Meander Van den Brande , Kyosuke Adachi , Francois Huveneers

We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation that characterizes phase separation phenomena of binary mixtures in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ $(d\in \{2,3\})$ with non-permeable boundary. The equations in the bulk are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes phase separation processes of binary mixtures. In recent years, several types of dynamic boundary conditions have been proposed in order to account for possible short-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Chun Liu , Hao Wu

Many systems exhibit a phase where the order parameter is spatially modulated. These patterns can be the result of a frustration caused by the competition between interaction forces with opposite effects. In all models with local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-21 Simon Villain-Guillot

Many biological processes are supported by special molecules, called motor proteins or molecular motors, that transport cellular cargoes along linear protein filaments and can reversibly associate to their tracks. Stimulated by these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-17 Akriti Jindal , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky , Arvind Kumar Gupta

We study the dynamics of phase ordering of a non-conserved, scalar order parameter in one dimension, with long-range interactions characterized by a power law $r^{-d-\sigma}$. In contrast to higher dimensional systems, the point nature of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 B. P. Lee , J. L. Cardy

We consider a two-dimensional lattice gas model with repulsive nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor interactions that evolves in time according to anisotropic Kawasaki dynamics. The hopping of particles along the principal directions is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Attila Szolnoki , Gyorgy Szabo

We investigate a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal phase field model of viscous Cahn-Hilliard type. The model constitutes a nonlocal version of a model for two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

A two-temperature lattice gas model with repulsive nearest-neighbour interactions is studied using Monte Carlo simulations and dynamical mean-field approximation. The evolution of the two-dimensional, half-filled system is described by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Attila Szolnoki

Behavior of two-time autocorrelation during the phase separation in solid binary mixtures are studied via numerical solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation as well as Monte Carlo simulations of the Ising model. Results are analyzed via…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Jiarul Midya , Suman Majumder , Subir K. Das

The formal sharp-interface asymptotics in a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation with cross-diffusive coupling to a bulk stress variable are shown to lead to non-local lower-order counterparts of the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Katharina Hopf , John King , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner

One dimensional non-equilibrium systems with short-range interaction can undergo phase transitions from homogeneous states to phase separated states as interaction ($\epsilon$) among particles is increased. One of the model systems where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-31 Anasuya Kundu , P. K. Mohanty

Differences in activities in colloidal particles are sufficient to drive phase separation between active and passive (or less active) particles, even if they have only excluded volume interactions. In this paper, we study the phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-27 Efe Ilker , Jean-François Joanny

We investigate the Cahn-Hilliard equation with nonlinear diffusion and non-degenerate mobility modeling phase separation phenomena in complex systems (e.g., crystals and polymers). Previous results in the literature on this model relied on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Monica Conti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini , Giulio Schimperna

We study diffusive dynamics of phase separation in a binary mixture, following critical quench, both in spatial dimensions $d=2$ and $d=3$. Particular focus in this work is to obtain information about effects of system size and correction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Suman Majumder , Subir K. Das

Recent exact results for a particle-exchange model on a linear lattice, with only irreversible moves reducing the local energy allowed, are reviewed. This model describes a zero-temperature Kawasaki-type phase separation process which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Privman

Phase separation dynamics with an initially non-uniform concentration are studied. Critical and off-critical behavior is observed simultaneously. A mechanism for an expanding phase separated region is demonstrated and the time dependence of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. M. Lacasta , J. M. Sancho , Chuck Yeung

We consider a class of nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}$ $(d\in\{2,3\})$, subject to a nonlocal kinetic rate dependent dynamic boundary condition. This diffuse interface model describes phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Maoyin Lv , Hao Wu