Puri, Sanjay ; Binder, Kurt (1992) Surface effects on kinetics of ordering Zeitschrift für Physik B: Condensed Matter, 86 (2). pp. 263-271. ISSN 0722-3277
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Abstract
We study the effects of surfaces on the kinetics of phase changes in Ising-type systems. If the surface effects can be modelled by a field which couples linearly to the local order parameter, the growth of wetting or drying layers occurs. The numerical solution of the corresponding time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation yields a temporally logarithmic growth for the thickness of a wetting (drying) layer growing from an unstable dry (wet) state. On the other hand, if one starts off with a metastable state, the radius of a supercritical plug (wet or dry) grows linearly in time, in accordance with recent experimental results.
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