Competitive nucleation in metastable systems
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چکیده
Metastability is observed when a physical system is close to a first order phase transition. In this paper the metastable behavior of a two state reversible probabilistic cellular automaton with self–interaction is discussed. Depending on the self–interaction, competing metastable states arise and a behavior very similar to that of the three state Blume–Capel spin model is found.
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