Persistence in systems with conserved order parameter

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Abstract: We consider the low-temperature coarsening dynamics of a one-dimensional Ising ferromagnet with conserved Kawasaki-like dynamics in the domain representation. Domains diffuse with size-dependent diffusion constant, D(l)proptolgamma with gamma=−1. We generalize this model to arbitrary gamma, and derive an expression for the domain density, N(t)simt−phi with phi=1/(2−gamma), using a scaling argument. We also investigate numerically the persistence exponent heta characterizing the power-law decay of the number, Np(t), of persistent (unflipped) spins at time t, and find Np(t)simt−heta where heta depends on gamma. We show how the results for phi and heta are related to similar calculations in diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation (DLCA) where clusters with size-dependent diffusion constant diffuse through an immobile `empty' phase and aggregate irreversibly on impact. Simulations show that, while phi is the same in both models, heta is different except for gamma=0. We also investigate models that interpolate between symmetric domain diffusion and DLCA.











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