Kinetics of clusters in Ising models

Recent progress, partly confirming old predictions, is reviewed on the problem of how to describe collective phenomena in fluids and Ising models by a droplet picture, where clusters of all sizes conspire to produce phase transitions. Our particular emphasis is on time-dependent simulations and their partial description by the 1935 Becker-Doring equation.

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