Metastability and ripening of multi-component liquid mixtures
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| author | Bartolucci, Giacomo Olmeda, Fabrizio |
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| contents | Understanding how multi-component liquid mixtures undergo phase separation is central to elucidating biophysical organization in the cell. Here, combining analytical and numerical results, we characterise the dynamics of mixtures with disordered interactions among the components. We first study how two coexisting phases become unstable, leading to multiphase coexistence. We then show that the scaling of droplet radius as $t^{1/3}$ and droplet number as $n^{-2/3}$, characteristic of Ostwald ripening in two dimensions, can be severely delayed. This delay arises from glass-like relaxation and the emergence of long-lived metastable states characterized by different wetting angles. |
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| spellingShingle | Metastability and ripening of multi-component liquid mixtures Bartolucci, Giacomo Olmeda, Fabrizio Soft Condensed Matter Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Biological Physics Understanding how multi-component liquid mixtures undergo phase separation is central to elucidating biophysical organization in the cell. Here, combining analytical and numerical results, we characterise the dynamics of mixtures with disordered interactions among the components. We first study how two coexisting phases become unstable, leading to multiphase coexistence. We then show that the scaling of droplet radius as $t^{1/3}$ and droplet number as $n^{-2/3}$, characteristic of Ostwald ripening in two dimensions, can be severely delayed. This delay arises from glass-like relaxation and the emergence of long-lived metastable states characterized by different wetting angles. |
| title | Metastability and ripening of multi-component liquid mixtures |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04999 |