Spinodal-assisted nucleation in the two-dimensional $q-$state Potts model with short-to-long range interactions

Giuseppe Gagliardi, Francesco Macheda

We study homogeneous nucleation in the two-dimensional $q-$state Potts model for $q=3,5,10,20$ and ferromagnetic couplings $J_{ij}\propto \Theta (R-|i-j|)$, by means of Monte Carlo si…