Presentation Name: Numerical Methods of Self-Consistent Mean Field Theory
Presenter: Pingwen Zhang
Date: 2008-07-17
Location: 光华东楼2001
Abstract:

We will also introduce a numerical method to study the nucleation in copolymer melts. Nucleation is the decay of a metastable state via the thermally activated formation and subsequent growth of droplets of the equilibrium phase. We will consider the nucleation in diblock copolymer melts, whose equilibrium phases are well understood. We apply a new numerical method, called the string method, to compute the minimum energy path (MEP). Then from the MEP, we find the size and shape of the critical droplet and the free-energy barrier to nucleation.

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