Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-12-2002
Publication Title
Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Using a Boltzmann-like equation, we investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of nonperturbative fluctuations within the context of Ginzburg-Landau models. As an illustration, we examine how a two-phase system initially prepared in a homogeneous, low-temperature phase becomes populated by precursors of the opposite phase as the temperature is increased. We compute the critical value of the order parameter for the onset of percolation, which signals the breakdown of the conventional dilute gas approximation.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.65.036113
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Gleiser, Marcelo; Howell, Rafael C.; and Ramos, Rudnei O., "Nonequilibrium Precursor Model for the Onset Of Percolation in a Two-Phase System" (2002). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1998.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1998
