Defect Relaxation and Coarsening Exponents

Abstract

The coarsening exponents describing the growth of long-range order in systems quenched from a disordered to an ordered phase are discussed in terms of the decay rate, omega(k), for the relaxation of a distortion of wavevector k applied to a topological defect. For systems described by order parameters with Z(2) (`Ising'), and O(2) (`XY') symmetry, the appropriate defects are domain walls and vortex lines respectively. From omega(k) ~ k^z, we infer L(t) ~ t^(1/z) for the coarsening scale, with the assumption that defect relaxation provides the dominant coarsening mechanism. The O(2) case requires careful discussion due to infrared divergences associated with the far field of a vortex line. Conserved, non-conserved, and `intermediate' dynamics are considered, with either short-range or long-range interactions. In all cases the results agree with an earlier `energy scaling' analysis.

Revtex, 7 pages, no figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E

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