  Assuming a first-order chiral transition scenario, we study the process of
phase conversion driven by homogeneous nucleation. We adopt a quasiparticle
model whose parameters are fit to lattice QCD data to describe the pressure at
high temperature in the deconfined sector, and a bag model equation of state
for pions in the low-temperature sector. We compute the critical radius and
nucleation rate in the thin-wall approximation, and compare the results to the
ones obtained using the bag model and the linear $\sigma$ model.
