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Coarsening in Two-Dimensional Soap Froths and the Large-Q Potts Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Gary S. Grest ,
James A. Glaziers ,
Michael P. Anderson ,
Elizabeth A. Holm  and
David J. Srolovitz
Gary S. Grest
Affiliation:
Corporate Research Science Laboratory, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ 08801
James A. Glaziers
Affiliation:
Research Institute of Electrical Communications, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan
Michael P. Anderson
Affiliation:
Corporate Research Science Laboratory, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ 08801
Elizabeth A. Holm
Affiliation:
Department of Material Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
David J. Srolovitz
Affiliation:
Department of Material Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Abstract

A detailed comparison between the experimental evolution of a two-dimensional soap froth and the large Q state Potts model is presented. The pattern evolution starting from identical initial conditions will be compared as well as a variety of distribution functions and correlations of the two systems. Simulations on different lattices show that the discrete lattice of the Potts model causes deviations from universal domain growth by weakening the vertex angle boundary conditions that form the basis of von Neumann's law. We show that the anisotropy inherent in a discrete lattice simulation, which masks the underlying ‘universal’ grain growth, can be overcome by increasing the range of the interaction between spins or increasing the temperature. Excellent overall agreement between the kinetics, topological distributions and domain size distributions between the low lattice anisotropy Potts-model simulations and the soap froth suggests that the Potts model is useful for studying domain growth in a wide variety of physical systems.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 237: Symposium Ca – Interface Dynamics and Growth , 1991 , 101
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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