PHASE SEPARATION DYNAMICS AND EXTERNAL FORCE FIELD

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Abstract
If spinodal decomposition is modeled by the Cahn-Hilliard (-Cook) equation, the effect of a uniform external force such as gravitation does not appear in the bulk phase kinetics. In contrast, in the Kawasaki exchange modeling of the local dynamics of binary alloys, this effect directly modifies the bulk phase kinetics. We resolve this paradox through the cell-dynamical-system modeling of the Kawasaki exchange dynamics. Its continuum version has turned out to be a modified Cahn-Hilliard equation already proposed by Langer et al. about ten years ago. We demonstrate some examples in which the correction to the Cahn-Hilliard equation is significant.

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