Validity of classical nucleation theory for Ising models

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Ryu, Seunghwa ^a   Cai, Wei ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D ISING MODEL; ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; NUCLEATION RATE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; REFERENCE POINTS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THREE DIMENSIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; FORECASTING; FREE ENERGY; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ISING MODEL;

EID: 77950170454     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.030601     Document Type: Article

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