Speaker:
Vitaly Shneidman
Institution:
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Time:
Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 2:00pm
Location:
MSTB 254
I will first briefly review the classical,
"Becker-Doring" (BD) theory of nucleation and describe
the solution of the discrete time-dependent BD equation.
Then, I will discuss low-temperature nucleation in a
two-dimensional Ising system driven by Glauber/Metropolis
dynamics. Here, accurate values of the nucleation rate can
be derived and used to assess the phenomenological BD
picture.