Inhomogeneous nucleation in first-order phase transitions

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The Landau-Ginzburg Hamiltonian is considered as a universal model of dynamical critical behavior for a system undergoing a first-order phase transition. The resultant equation of motion is investigated for spherically symmetric solutions which obey particular boundary conditions. The solutions are found numerically and from these stationary solutions, the average order parameters and specific heats are calculated. Comparison with the results of homogeneous nucleation phenomenology and with recent experimental results is presented.

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