Soft-wall domain-growth kinetics of twofold-degenerate ordering

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The domain growth in a two-dimensional twofold-degenerate system with soft domain walls is shown to obey dynamical scaling. The value of the growth exponent is n 0.25 which differs from the classical Lifshitz-Allen-Cahn prediction n=(1/2), but accords with recent findings for other growth models with soft walls. The results suggest that domain-wall softness may be more important than the degeneracy of the ground state for a possible universal classification of domain-growth kinetics.

Original languageEnglish
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume56
Issue number8
Pages (from-to)850-853
Number of pages4
ISSN0031-9007
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1986
Externally publishedYes

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