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Spinodal decomposition: An alternate mechanism of phase conversion
The scenario of homogeneous nucleation is investigated for a first order
quark-hadron phase transition in a rapidly expanding background of quark gluon
plasma. It is found that significant supercooling is possible before
hadronization begins. This study also suggests that spinodal decomposition
competes with nucleation and may provide an alternative mechanism for phase
conversion.Comment: LaTeX, 4 pages with 3 Postscript figures. Talk given at International
Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP 2001),
Nov. 26-30, 2001, Jaipur, Indi