A numerical method for the study of nucleation of ordered phases

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2009.11.009zbMath1329.82041OpenAlexW2165884369MaRDI QIDQ846603

An-Chang Shi, Pingwen Zhang, Ling Lin, Xiuyuan Cheng, E. Weinan

Publication date: 9 February 2010

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.11.009

zbMATH Keywords

nucleationliquid crystalstring methodcritical nucleiordered phaseblock copolymerminimum energy path (MEP)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Crystals in solids (74N05)

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• Dual variational methods in critical point theory and applications
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• Higher order string method for finding minimum energy paths
• Critical points of the Onsager functional on a sphere

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