Abstract
Most theories of homogeneous nucleation are based on a Fokker-Planck-like description of the behavior of the mass of clusters. Here we will show that these approaches are incomplete for a large class of nucleating systems, as they assume the effective dynamics of the clusters to be Markovian, i.e., memoryless. We characterize these non-Markovian dynamics and show how this influences the dynamics of clusters during nucleation. Our results are validated by simulations of a three-dimensional Ising model with locally conserved magnetization.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Pages (from-to) | 062101/1-062101/4 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |