Heterogeneous nucleation on complex networks with mobile impurities
arXiv:1506.00751 · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/111/48005
Abstract
We study the heterogeneous nucleation of Ising model on complex networks under a non-equilibrium situation where the impurities perform degree-biased motion controlled by a parameter α. Through the forward flux sampling and detailed analysis on the nucleating clusters, we find that the nucleation rate shows a nonmonotonic dependence on αfor small number of impurities, in which a maximal nucleation rate occurs at α=0 corresponding to the degree-uncorrelated random motion. Furthermore, we demonstrate the distinct features of the nucleating clusters along the pathway for different preference of impurities motion, which may be used to understand the resonance-like dependence of nucleation rate on the motion bias of impurities. Our theoretical analysis shows that the nonequilibrium diffusion of impurities can always induce a positive energy flux that can facilitate the barrier-crossing nucleation process. The nonmonotonic feature of the average value of the energy flux with αmay be the origin of our simulation results.
6 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1202.4230
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