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We study the limit behavior of Cahn--Hilliard-type functionals in which the derivative is replaced by higher-order fractional derivatives and modulated by an oscillating factor. Depending on the ratio between the oscillation scale and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Fabrizio Caragiulo , Sergio Scalabrino , Edoardo Voglino

We numerically investigate the phase separation dynamics of the non-reciprocal Allen-Cahn model in which two non-conserved order parameters are coupled. The system exhibits several dynamical patterns such as the randomly oscillating phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-04 Maoji Liu , Zhanglin Hou , Hiroyuki Kitahata , Linli He , Shigeyuki Komura

A driven system of three species of particle diffusing on a ring is studied in detail. The dynamics is local and conserves the three densities. A simple argument suggesting that the model should phase separate and break the translational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Evans , Y. Kafri , H. M. Koduvely , D. Mukamel

Phase separation is a fundamental phenomenon that produces spatially heterogeneous patterns in soft matter. In this Lecture Note we show that phase separation in these materials generally belongs to what we call "viscoelastic phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-08 Hajime Tanaka

Much work has been devoted to analysing thermodynamic models for solid dispersions with a view to identifying regions in the phase diagram where amorphous phase separation or drug recrystallization can occur. However, detailed partial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-26 Martin Meere , Giuseppe Pontrelli , Sean McGinty

We study the asymptotic limit of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. The method of formally matched asymptotic expansions is extended to account for the movement of the domain. We consider various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 David O'Connor , Bjorn Stinner

This article examines the dynamic phase transitions and pattern formations attributed to binary systems modeled by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. In particular, we consider a two-dimensional lattice structure and determine how different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Jared Grossman , Evan Halloran , Shouhong Wang

We present a theoretical analysis of phase separation in the presence of a spatially periodic forcing of wavenumber q traveling with a velocity v. By an analytical and numerical study of a suitably generalized 2d-Cahn-Hilliard model we find…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-03-16 V. Weith , A. Krekhov , W. Zimmermann

We study the phase-ordering kinetics of the one-dimensional Heisenberg model with conserved order parameter, by means of scaling arguments and numerical simulations. We find a rich dynamical pattern with a regime characterized by two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-15 R. Burioni , F. Corberi , A. Vezzani

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 study the sharp interface limit and well-posedness of a phase field model for self-climb of prismatic dislocation loops in periodic settings. The model is set up in a Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn framework featured with degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Xiaohua Niu , Xiaodong Yan

The dynamics of phase separation for a binary fluid subjected to a uniform shear are solved exactly for a model in which the order parameter is generalized to an n-component vector and the large-n limit taken. Characteristic length scales…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. P. Rapapa , A. J. Bray

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a classic model of phase separation in binary mixtures that exhibits spontaneous coarsening of the phases. We study the Cahn--Hilliard equation with an imposed advection term in order to model the stirring and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Yu Feng , Yuanyuan Feng , Gautam Iyer , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

Phase separation of a liquid mixture embedded within an elastic network is relevant to a wide range of natural and industrial systems, including biomolecular condensates interacting with the cytoskeleton, structural colouring in bird…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Oliver W. Paulin , Yicheng Qiang , David Zwicker

The process of phase separation of binary systems is described by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The main objective of this article is to give a classification on the dynamic phase transitions for binary systems using either the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Tian Ma , Shouhong Wang

Recent studies have shown that one-dimensional driven systems can exhibit phase separation even if the dynamics is governed by local rules. The ABC model, which comprises three particle species that diffuse asymmetrically around a ring,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Clincy , B. Derrida , M. R. Evans

Inspired by recent experiments, we present a phase-field model of microphase separation in an elastomer swollen with a solvent. The imbalance between the molecular scale of demixing and the mesoscopic scale beyond which elasticity operates…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-05 Manu Mannattil , Haim Diamant , David Andelman

The ground-state phase diagram of the asymmetric Hubbard model is studied in one and two dimensions by a well-controlled numerical method. The method allows to calculate directly the probabilities of particular phases in the approximate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Pavol Farkasovsky

Phase separation plays an role in determining the self-assembly of biological and soft-matter systems. In biological systems, liquid-liquid phase separation inside a cell leads to the formation of various macromolecular aggregates. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-26 Tanmay Biswas , Gerhard Kahl , Gaurav P. Shrivastav

Membrane phase-separation is a mechanism that biological membranes often use to locally concentrate specific lipid species in order to organize diverse membrane processes. Phase separation has also been explored as a tool for the design of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Alexander Zhiliakov , Yifei Wang , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii , Sheereen Majd