Hierarchies in Nucleation Transitions

We discuss the hierarchy of subphase transitions in first-order-like nucleation processes for an exemplified aggregation transition of heteropolymers. We perform an analysis of the microcanonical entropy, i.e., the density of states is considered as the central statistical system quantity since it connects system-specific entropic and energetic information in a natural and unique way.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the Computational Physics Conference CCP 2010, Jun 23-27, 2010, Trondheim, Norwa