Re-equilibration after quenches in athermal martensites: Conversion delays for vapor-to-liquid domain-wall phases
Re-equilibration after quenches in athermal martensites: Conversion delays for vapor-to-liquid domain-wall phases
Entropy barriers and ageing states appear in martensitic structural-transition models, slowly re-equilibrating after temperature quenches, under Monte Carlo dynamics. Concepts from protein folding and ageing harmonic oscillators turn out to be useful in understanding these nonequilibrium evolutions. We show how the athermal, non-activated delay time for seeded parent-phase austenite to …