A droplet within the spherical model

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0150-XMaRDI QIDQ535055zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. E. Patrick

Publication date 11 May 2011

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4924

zbMATH Keywords

droplet boundarydroplet shapelattice gasquasi-averages

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: Various substances in the liquid state tend to form droplets. In this paper the shape of such droplets is investigated within the spherical model of a lattice gas. We show that in this case the droplet boundary is always diffusive, as opposed to sharp, and find the corresponding density profiles (droplet shapes). Translation-invariant versions of the spherical model do not fix the spatial location of the droplet, hence lead to mixed phases. To obtain pure macroscopic states (which describe localized droplets) we use generalized quasi-averaging. Conventional quasi-averaging deforms droplets and, hence, can not be used for this purpose. On the contrary, application of the generalized method of quasi-averages yields droplet shapes which do not depend on the magnitude of the applied external field.

Review text

The authors study a spherical droplet formation and its properties in a lattice gas. They show that a generalized method of quasi-averages applied to the spherical model yields pure phases of the lattice gas and droplets with diffuse boundaries.

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