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At high supersaturations (deep quenches) the system from being metastable becomes unstable; in the theory of phase transitions the boundary between the metastable and unstable regions is given by a thermodynamic spinodal being a locus of points corresponding to a divergent compressibility. Rigorously speaking the transition from metastable to unstable states does not reduce to a sharp line but rather represents a region of a certain width which depends on the range of interparticle interactions [1].Within the spinodal region the fluid becomes unstable giving rise to the phenomenon of spinodal decomposition [2], characterized by vanishing of the free energy barrier of cluster formation at some finite value of the supersaturation. The classical theory does not signal the spinodal: the nucleation barrier decreases with \(S\) but remains finite for all values of \(S\) (see Eq. (3.28).
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Kalikmanov, V.I. (2013). Nucleation at High Supersaturations. In: Nucleation Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 860. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3643-8_9
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