Phase-ordering and coarsening kinetics

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OrderCoarseningPicture
from the site http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/sethna/

Main topics:

  • Nucleation and droplets growth
  • Dynamics of phase change in continuous models:
    • Phase ordering of non-conserved fields (model A)
    • Spinodal decomposition in conserved fields (model B)
    • Hohenberg-Halperin-Ma classification
    • Interface dynamics (and roughening)
    • Renormalization group (critical and low-temperature dynamics)
    • Approximations and exact results
  • Microscopic models:
    • Glauber dynamics
    • Kawasaki dynamics
    • Coarsening without surface tension (voter model)
    • Zero temperature dynamics and metastable states

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