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Test of the Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami picture of metastable decay in a model with microscopic dynamics | | Raphael A. Ramos
; Per Arne Rikvold
; M. A. Novotny
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5 Nov 1998 | | Journal: | Phys. Rev. B 59, 9053-9069 (1999). | | Subject: | Materials Science; Soft Condensed Matter; Statistical Mechanics; Chemical Physics; Chaotic Dynamics | cond-mat.mtrl-sci chao-dyn cond-mat.soft cond-mat.stat-mech nlin.CD physics.chem-ph | | Affiliation: | U. of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez), Per Arne Rikvold, and M. A. Novotny (Florida State U. | | Abstract: | The Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami (KJMA) theory for the time evolution of the order parameter in systems undergoing first-order phase transformations has been extended by Sekimoto to the level of two-point correlation functions. Here, this extended KJMA theory is applied to a kinetic Ising lattice-gas model, in which the elementary kinetic processes act on microscopic length and time scales. The theoretical framework is used to analyze data from extensive Monte Carlo simulations. The theory is inherently a mesoscopic continuum picture, and in principle it requires a large separation between the microscopic scales and the mesoscopic scales characteristic of the evolving two-phase structure. Nevertheless, we find excellent quantitative agreement with the simulations in a large parameter regime, extending remarkably far towards strong fields (large supersaturations) and correspondingly small nucleation barriers. The original KJMA theory permits direct measurement of the order parameter in the metastable phase, and using the extension to correlation functions one can also perform separate measurements of the nucleation rate and the average velocity of the convoluted interface between the metastable and stable phase regions. The values obtained for all three quantities are verified by other theoretical and computational methods. As these quantities are often difficult to measure directly during a process of phase transformation, data analysis using the extended KJMA theory may provide a useful experimental alternative. | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/9811079 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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