Exchange Driven Growth

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2003-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305154v1

Phys. Rev. E 68, 031104 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.68.031104

We study a class of growth processes in which clusters evolve via exchange of particles. We show that depending on the rate of exchange there are three possibilities: I) Growth: Clusters grow indefinitely; II) Gelation: All mass is transformed into an infinite gel in a finite time; and III) Instant Gelation. In regimes I and II, the cluster size distribution attains a self-similar form. The large size tail of the scaling distribution is Phi(x) ~ exp(-x^{2-\nu}), where nu is a homogeneity degree of the rate of exchange. At the borderline case nu=2, the distribution exhibits a generic algebraic tail, Phi(x)\sim x^{-5}. In regime III, the gel nucleates immediately and consumes the entire system. For finite systems, the gelation time vanishes logarithmically, T\sim [\ln N]^{-(\nu-2)}, in the large system size limit N\to\infty. The theory is applied to coarsening in the infinite range Ising-Kawasaki model and in electrostatically driven granular layers.

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