Coarsening in inhomogeneous systems
Statistical Mechanics
2015-06-04 v1
Abstract
This Article is a brief review of coarsening phenomena occurring in systems where quenched features - such as random field, varying coupling constants or lattice vacancies - spoil homogeneity. We discuss the current understanding of the problem in ferromagnetic systems with a non-conserved scalar order parameter by focusing primarily on the form of the growth-law of the ordered domains and on the scaling properties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1504.00104,
title = {Coarsening in inhomogeneous systems},
author = {Federico Corberi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00104},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, 5 figures. This paper is a contribution to the special issue "Coarsening dynamics", Comptes Rendus de Physique, https://sites.google.com/site/ppoliti/crp-special-issue