Dynamic Phase Transitions in Finite Systems

• Grant number: 08/00460-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2008
• End date: December 31, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - General Physics
• Principal Investigator: Gastão Inácio Krein
• Grantee: Francisco Conti Bauke
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 04/10619-9 - Study of high energy hadronic interactions, AP.TEM

Abstract

The general aim of the project is to study through a Ginzburg-Landau-Langevin equation the time evolution of an order parameter whose initial configuration is concentrated in a region of space. The problem is of interest for finite systems, like for example in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and for material systems at the nanometric scale.