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We present a brief analysis of the crossover phase diagram for the decay of
a metastable phase in a simple dynamic lattice-gas model of a two-phase sy
stem. We illustrate the nucleation-theoretical analysis with dynamic Monte
Carlo (MC) simulations of a kinetic Ising lattice gas on square and cubic l
attices. We predict several regimes in which the metastable lifetime has di
fferent functional forms, and we provide estimates for the crossovers betwe
en the different regimes. In the multidroplet regime, the Kolmogorov-Johnso
n-Mehl-Avrami (KJMA) theory for the time dependence of the order-parameter
decay and the two-point density correlation function allows extraction of b
oth the order parameter in the metastable phase and the interfacial velocit
y from the simulation data. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reser
ved.