Armando Ticona Bustillos, Dieter W. Heermann, Claudette E. Cordeiro
Published 2003-11-12Version 1
By quenching into the metastable region of the three-dimensional Ising model, we investigate the paths that the magnetization (energy) takes as a function of time. We accumulate the magnetization (energy) paths into time-dependent distributions from which we reconstruct the free energy as a function of the magnetic field, temperature and system size. From the reconstructed free energy, we obtain the free energy barrier that is associated with the transition from a metastable state to the stable equilibrium state. Although mean-field theory predicts a sharp transition between the metastable and the unstable region where the free energy barrier is zero, the results for the nearest-neighbour Ising model show that the free energy barrier does not go zero.
Reconstruction of the lattice Hamiltonian models from the observations of microscopic degrees of freedom in the presence of competing interactions
Heterogeneous nucleation near a metastable vapour-liquid transition: the effect of wetting transitions
Interplay between the range of attractive potential and metastability in gas-liquid nucleation
