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Collapse of Metastability: Dynamics of First-Order Phase Transition

Collapse of Metastability: Dynamics of First-Order Phase Transition

Miyashita, Seiji

Hardcover

Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, Book 211

Technology & EngineeringPhysics

ISBN10: 9811966672
ISBN13: 9789811966675
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 5 2022
Pages: 259
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

To understand phenomena in nature, it is important to focus not only on properties of stationary states, but also their changes in time, that is, the dynamics between bistable states. This book reviews the mechanics of first-order phase transitions and discusses relaxation and collapses of metastable states from various viewpoints, including Kramers' method for the lifetime of metastability, Langer's analysis on the singularity, effects of thermal fluctuation studied by Néel and Brown, and eigenvalue structures of the transfer-matrix for the phase transitions. The book also goes into the mechanics of metastability in quantum systems from the viewpoints of the eigenvalue problem of the Hamiltonian and the Liouvillian for a dynamical process and discusses relations between quantum tunneling processes and metastability therein. Lastly, the coercivity of magnets consisting of an ensemble of grains is reviewed.

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