Analytical approach to time lag in binary nucleation.
We present an analytical formula for the time required to establish steady state in a nucleating binary system. To test our solution, we evaluate the time lag for a range of activities of both components at the vapor-liquid transition, and show that our result is in much better agreement with a purely numerical simulation than other available analytical formulas, which overestimate the time lag by factors of from 2 to 200.
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Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Praha 6, Czech Republic.
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