Competitive nucleation in metastable systems
Statistical Mechanics
2009-07-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Metastability is observed when a physical system is close to a first order phase transition. In this paper the metastable behavior of a two state reversible probabilistic cellular automaton with self-interaction is discussed. Depending on the self-interaction, competing metastable states arise and a behavior very similar to that of the three state Blume-Capel spin model is found.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.0828,
title = {Competitive nucleation in metastable systems},
author = {Emilio N. M. Cirillo and Francesca R. Nardi and Cristian Spitoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0828},
year = {2009}
}