Unraveling the "Pressure-Effect" in Nucleation

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dc.creatorWedekind, Jan
dc.creatorHyvärinen, Antti-Pekka
dc.creatorBrus, David
dc.creatorReguera, David
dc.date2008-04-09
dc.date2008-05-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:08:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:08:57Z
dc.descriptionThe influence of the pressure of a chemically inert carrier-gas on the nucleation rate is one of the biggest puzzles in the research of gas-liquid nucleation. Different experiments can show a positive effect, a negative effect, or no effect at all. The same experiment may show both trends for the same substance depending on temperature, or for different substances at the same temperature. We show how this ambiguous effect naturally arises from the competition of two contributions: nonisothermal effects and pressure-volume work. Our model clarifies seemingly contradictory experimental results and quantifies the variation of the nucleation ability of a substance in the presence of an ambient gas. Our findings are corroborated by results from molecular dynamics simulation and might have important implications since nucleation in experiments, technical applications, and nature practically always occurs in the presence of an ambient gas.
dc.description4 pages, 3 figures. v2: All citations now appear correctly. v3: Updated one point in Fig. 2
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1516
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1516
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. Lett. 101, 125703 (2008)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.125703
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/171176
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleUnraveling the "Pressure-Effect" in Nucleation
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