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We review a few representative examples of granular experiments or models where phase separation, accompanied by domain coarsening, is a relevant phenomenon. We first elucidate the intrinsic non-equilibrium, or athermal, nature of granular…
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Recently B. Derrida [Phys. Rev. E 55, 3705 (1997)] introduced a numerical technique that allows one to measure the fraction of persistent spins in a coarsening nonequilibrium system at finite temperature. In the present work we extend this…