Abstract
Properties of metastable long-range Ising models (LRIMs) are studied for deep quenches near the mean-field spinodal with Monte Carlo simulations using Glauber dynamics. The theory of spinodal-assisted nucleation is found to agree well with the data. Nucleating droplets are shown to have the same structure as large clusters in random long-range bond percolation.
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Ray, T.S., Klein, W. Nucleation near the spinodal in long-range Ising models. J Stat Phys 61, 891–902 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027308
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027308