1D Cahn–Hilliard Dynamics: Coarsening and Interrupted Coarsening

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-01411-1_9zbMATH Open1315.35218arXiv1401.5033OpenAlexW1708170322MaRDI QIDQ5261479FDOQ5261479

Simon Villain-Guillot

Publication date: 3 July 2015

Published in: Discontinuity and Complexity in Nonlinear Physical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many systems exhibit a phase where the order parameter is spatially modulated. These patterns can be the result of a frustration caused by the competition between interaction forces with opposite effects. In all models with local interactions, these ordered phases disappear in the strong segregation regime (low temperature). It is expected however that these phases should persist in the case of long range interactions, which can't be correctly described by a Ginzburg-Landau type model with only a finite number of spatial derivatives of the order parameter. An alternative approach is to study the dynamics of the phase transition or pattern formation. While, in the usual process of Ostwald ripening, succession of doubling of the domain size leads to a total segregation, or macro-segregation, C. Misbah and P. Politi have shown that long-range interactions could cause an interruption of this coalescence process, stabilizing a pattern which then remains in a micro-structured state or super-crystal. We show that this is the case for a modified Cahn-Hilliard dynamics due to Oono which includes a non local term and which is particularly well suited to describe systems with a modulated phase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5033

zbMATH Keywords

segregationpattern formationinstabilityspinodal decompositioninterfacial dynamicsOstwald ripeningmodulated phaseCahn-Hillard equationsoliton latticecopolymersGinzburg-Landau free energydynamics of phase transitioncoarsening (interrupted coarsening)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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• Coarsening in one dimension: invariant and asymptotic states

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