Nucleation in Systems with Elastic Forces

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2 July 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0107020

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.

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Version 1, 2001-07-02, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 88 (8), 085701.

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