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In this paper we study metastability in large volumes at low temperatures. We consider both Ising spins subject to Glauber spin-flip dynamics and lattice gas particles subject to Kawasaki hopping dynamics. Let $\b$ denote the inverse temperature and let $\L_\b \subset \Z^2$ be a square box with periodic boundary conditions such that $\lim_{\b\to\infty}|\L_\b|=\infty$. We run the dynamics on $\L_\b$ starting from a random initial configuration where all the droplets (= clusters of plus-spins, respectively, clusters of particles)are small. For large $\b$, and for interaction parameters that correspond to the metastable regime, we investigate how the transition from the metastable state (with only small droplets) to the stable state (with one or more large droplets) takes place under the dynamics. This transition is triggered by the appearance of a single \emph{critical droplet} somewhere in $\L_\b$. Using potential-theoretic methods, we compute the \emph{average nucleation time} (= the first time a critical droplet appears and starts growing) up to a multiplicative factor that tends to one as $\b\to\infty$. It turns out that this time grows as $Ke^{\Gamma\b}/|\L_\b|$ for Glauber dyna

Author

Bovier, Anton; Hollander, Frank den; Spitoni, Cristian

Published

2008

Language

EN