Dynamics of spinodal decomposition in finite-lifetime systems: Nonlinear statistical theory based on a coarse-grained lattice-gas model.

Abstract

We study theoretically dynamics of the spinodal decomposition in finite-lifetime systems to clarify effects of the interparticle interactions beyond the Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson phenomenology. Our theory is based on the coarse-grained Hamiltonian derived from the interacting lattice-gas model with a finite lifetime. The information of a system is reduced to closed-form coupled integrodifferential equations for the single-point distribution function and the dynamical structure factor. These equations involve explicitly the interparticle interactions. The finite lifetime prevents the phase separation and the order formation in the cw creation case; domains cannot grow to be larger than an asymptotic characteristic size [k(max)(t --> infinity)](-1). Power-law dependence of k(max)(t --> infinity) on the interparticle interaction and the particle lifetime is also found numerically. The finite lifetime prevents the phase separation, i.e., the lower critical wave number k((1))(c) appears and domains of size larger than [k((1))(c)](-1) cannot grow.