Pressure in the Landau-Ginzburg Functional: Pascal's Law, Nucleation in Fluid Mixtures, a Meanfield Theory of Amphiphilic Action, and Interface Wetting in Glassy Liquids

Ho Yin Chan, Vassiliy Lubchenko

We set up the problem of finding the transition state for phase nucleation in multi-component fluid mixtures, within the Landau-Ginzburg density functional. We establish an express…