An application of the Kubo and Nyquist relations to nucleation

摘要

We examine fluctuations in cluster evaporation and growth and express these, using the Nyquist and Kubo relations [1,2], in terms of the resistance to single-cluster motion along the coordinate of cluster size. If successful in future development, the methods introduced here will have application to the abstraction of nucleation rates from computer simulations of individual-cluster evaporation/growth events.