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Hidemitsu Wadade - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Erio Tosatti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a fingerprint of surface tension anisotropy in the free energy cost of nucleation
    Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013
    Co-Authors: Santi Prestipino, Alessandro Laio, Erio Tosatti
    Abstract:

    We focus on the Gibbs free energy ΔG for nucleating a droplet of the stable phase (e.g., solid) inside the metastable parent phase (e.g., liquid), close to the first-order transition temperature. This quantity is central to the theory of homogeneous nucleation, since it superintends the nucleation rate. We recently introduced a field theory describing the dependence of ΔG on the droplet volume V, taking into account besides the microscopic fuzziness of the droplet-parent interface, also small fluctuations around the spherical shape whose effect, assuming isotropy, was found to be a characteristic Logarithmic Term. Here we extend this theory, introducing the effect of anisotropy in the surface tension, and show that in the limit of strong anisotropy ΔG(V) once more develops a Term Logarithmic on V, now with a prefactor of opposite sign with respect to the isotropic case. Based on this result, we argue that the geometrical shape that large solid nuclei mostly prefer could be inferred from the prefactor of the Logarithmic Term in the droplet free energy, as deTermined from the optimization of its near-coexistence profile.

  • A fingerprint of surface-tension anisotropy in the free-energy cost of nucleation
    The Journal of chemical physics, 2013
    Co-Authors: Santi Prestipino, Alessandro Laio, Erio Tosatti
    Abstract:

    We focus on the Gibbs free energy $\Delta G$ for nucleating a droplet of the stable phase (e.g. solid) inside the metastable parent phase (e.g. liquid), close to the first-order transition temperature. This quantity is central to the theory of homogeneous nucleation, since it superintends the nucleation rate. We recently introduced a field theory describing the dependence of $\Delta G$ on the droplet volume $V$, taking into account besides the microscopic fuzziness of the droplet-parent interface, also small fluctuations around the spherical shape whose effect, assuming isotropy, was found to be a characteristic Logarithmic Term. Here we extend this theory, introducing the effect of anisotropy in the surface tension, and show that in the limit of strong anisotropy $\Delta G(V)$ once more develops a Term Logarithmic on $V$, now with a prefactor of opposite sign with respect to the isotropic case. Based on this result, we argue that the geometrical shape that large solid nuclei mostly prefer could be inferred from the prefactor of the Logarithmic Term in the droplet free energy, as deTermined from the optimization of its near-coexistence profile.

Kei Morii - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Santi Prestipino - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a fingerprint of surface tension anisotropy in the free energy cost of nucleation
    Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013
    Co-Authors: Santi Prestipino, Alessandro Laio, Erio Tosatti
    Abstract:

    We focus on the Gibbs free energy ΔG for nucleating a droplet of the stable phase (e.g., solid) inside the metastable parent phase (e.g., liquid), close to the first-order transition temperature. This quantity is central to the theory of homogeneous nucleation, since it superintends the nucleation rate. We recently introduced a field theory describing the dependence of ΔG on the droplet volume V, taking into account besides the microscopic fuzziness of the droplet-parent interface, also small fluctuations around the spherical shape whose effect, assuming isotropy, was found to be a characteristic Logarithmic Term. Here we extend this theory, introducing the effect of anisotropy in the surface tension, and show that in the limit of strong anisotropy ΔG(V) once more develops a Term Logarithmic on V, now with a prefactor of opposite sign with respect to the isotropic case. Based on this result, we argue that the geometrical shape that large solid nuclei mostly prefer could be inferred from the prefactor of the Logarithmic Term in the droplet free energy, as deTermined from the optimization of its near-coexistence profile.

  • A fingerprint of surface-tension anisotropy in the free-energy cost of nucleation
    The Journal of chemical physics, 2013
    Co-Authors: Santi Prestipino, Alessandro Laio, Erio Tosatti
    Abstract:

    We focus on the Gibbs free energy $\Delta G$ for nucleating a droplet of the stable phase (e.g. solid) inside the metastable parent phase (e.g. liquid), close to the first-order transition temperature. This quantity is central to the theory of homogeneous nucleation, since it superintends the nucleation rate. We recently introduced a field theory describing the dependence of $\Delta G$ on the droplet volume $V$, taking into account besides the microscopic fuzziness of the droplet-parent interface, also small fluctuations around the spherical shape whose effect, assuming isotropy, was found to be a characteristic Logarithmic Term. Here we extend this theory, introducing the effect of anisotropy in the surface tension, and show that in the limit of strong anisotropy $\Delta G(V)$ once more develops a Term Logarithmic on $V$, now with a prefactor of opposite sign with respect to the isotropic case. Based on this result, we argue that the geometrical shape that large solid nuclei mostly prefer could be inferred from the prefactor of the Logarithmic Term in the droplet free energy, as deTermined from the optimization of its near-coexistence profile.

Marcos Marino - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a one loop test of quantum supergravity
    Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2014
    Co-Authors: Sayantani Bhattacharyya, Alba Grassi, Marcos Marino
    Abstract:

    The partition function on the three-sphere of ABJM theory and its generalizations has, at large N, a universal, subleading Logarithmic Term. Inspired by the success of one-loop quantum gravity for computing the Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy, we try to reproduce this universal Term by a one-loop calculation in Euclidean 11-dimensional supergravity on AdS4 × X7. We find perfect agreement between the results of ABJM theory and the 11-dimensional supergravity.

  • a one loop test of quantum supergravity
    arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory, 2012
    Co-Authors: Sayantani Bhattacharyya, Alba Grassi, Marcos Marino
    Abstract:

    The partition function on the three-sphere of ABJM theory and its generalizations has, at large N, a universal, subleading Logarithmic Term. Inspired by the success of one-loop quantum gravity for computing the Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy, we try to reproduce this universal Term by a one-loop calculation in Euclidean eleven-dimensional supergravity on AdS_4 \times X_7. We find perfect agreement between the results of ABJM theory and the eleven dimensional supergravity.