Breakup of universality in the generalized spinodal nucleation theory

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 605-623

  Muratov, Cyrill B ^a   Vanden Eijnden, Eric ^b,c  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical droplet; Matched asymptotics; Non classical nucleation; Scaling; Spinodal

Indexed keywords

EID: 3542998723     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:joss.0000012504.46631.89     Document Type: Article

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