Nucleation and Droplet Growth as a Stochastic Process

DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239252.003.0012zbMath1304.82053MaRDI QIDQ3542316

Oliver Penrose

Publication date: 1 December 2008

Published in: Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes and Interface Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c7914cbd14fdae3c0d3db853aa827ef2ccc76244

zbMATH Keywords

large deviations; nucleation; birth-and-death process; diffusion limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60H10: Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)

37N20: Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics)

82C24: Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics