Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2000-03-28
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
18 pages
Scientific paper
10.1143/PTP.104.307
The explicit form of the interface equation of motion derived assuming a minimal surface is extended to general bicontinuous interfaces that appear in the diffusion limited stage of the phase separation process of binary mixtures. The derivation is based on a formal solution of the equivalent simple layer for the Dirichlet problem of the Laplace equation with an arbitrary boundary surface. It is shown that the assumption of a minimal surface used in the previous linear theory is not necessary, but its bicontinuous nature is the essential condition required for us to rederive the explicit form of the simple layer. The de- rived curvature flow equation has a phenomenological cut-off length, i.e., an `electro-static' screening length. That is re- lated to the well-known scaling length characterizing the spatial pattern size of a homogeneously growing bicontinuous phase. The corresponding equation of the level function in this scheme is given in a one-parameter form also.
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