Author:
Trugilho L. F.,Rizzi L. G.
Abstract
Abstract
Microcanonical thermostatistics analysis has been introduced as an important method in the study of phase transitions observed in intrinsically small systems, such as folding transitions in proteins and surface adsorption transitions of polymeric chains. Here we consider a lattice model and apply microcanonical analysis to investigate the aggregation transition of a system with anisotropically interacting molecules. By performing multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations we are able to obtain free-energy profiles from where we extract physical quantities related to the aggregation transition such as its transition temperature, latent heat, and free-energy barriers. Our results confirms that the aggregation transition is a first-order type of transition and that it is related to the nucleation of molecules into elongated aggregates. Also, our analysis revealed an unexpected non-monotonic behavior for the free-energy barrier as a function of the anisotropic ratio ξ between strong and weak interactions of the molecules, indicating that the nucleation kinetics might be also influenced by ξ.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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