Continuum Widom-Rowlinson model: In the beginning of seventies, a great progress has already been made in understanding equilibrium phase transitions and critical phenomena in classical (i.e. non-quantum) lattice models, where basic elements are localized on vertices of a regular discrete structure and interact with their nearest neighbors. The lattice gas analogy [1] of Onsager’s exact solutio...

Clearly understanding elementary growth processes that depend on surface reconstruction is essential to controlling vapor-phase epitaxy more precisely. In this study, ammonia chemical adsorption on GaN(0001) reconstructed surfaces under metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) conditions (3Ga-H and Nad-H + Ga-H on a 2 × 2 unit cell) is investigated using steepest-entropy-ascent quantum thermody...

An expression for the work of formation of a spherical droplet condensing on a soluble condensation nucleus out of a solvent vapor is derived. The dependence of the formation work on the solvent vapor chemical potential and the droplet and the nucleus residue sizes is analyzed. The balance of the solute matter between the liquid film and the nucleus residue and the effect of overlapping the sur...