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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/9840620C-DBEF-4C4A-B79A-F37C7A5447E5 | ||
| Year | 2000 | ||
| Type of Item | Conference Full Paper | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | P. Kevrekidis, Y. Drossinos, M. Lazaridis , P. G. Georgopoulos,"Translational invariance in the theory of nucleation," in 200 15th Int. Conf. on Nucleation and Atm. Aerosols,doi: 10.1063/1.1361850 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1361850 | ||
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A connection between field-theoretic descriptions of condensation and density-functional theories of nucleation is established. The time-independent differential equation for the density profile of a liquid droplet that mediates the transition from liquid to gas phase is derived based on a variational principle. The droplet profile depends crucially on an attractive interaction term. A physically motivated form for the one-dimensional droplet profile is postulated, the droplet translational eigenmode for an infinite system is identified, and its contribution to the nucleation-rate prefactor is evaluated.
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