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Anisotropic spinodal decomposition of a polar dielectric in a strong electric field: Molecular dynamics simulation

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The evolution of a one-component, initially single-phase, dielectric medium that represents a two-dimensional system of dipole molecules has been studied by the molecular dynamics method after the application of a uniform electric field. It is shown that the initially homogeneous medium under the action of the applied field can separate into two phases, liquid and gaseous. In the two-dimensional model system, these phases appear as bands extended along the field direction.

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  1. Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

    D. I. Karpov & A. L. Kupershtokh

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Original Russian Text © D.I. Karpov, A.L. Kupershtokh, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 87–94.

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Karpov, D.I., Kupershtokh, A.L. Anisotropic spinodal decomposition of a polar dielectric in a strong electric field: Molecular dynamics simulation. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 479–482 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009050289

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