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Interrupted coarsening in the zero-temperature kinetic Ising chain driven by a periodic external field

2015/06/03 by Yi Su, Yi, Su Do, Seung Ki Baek +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic properties of thin films #Quantum many-body systems #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Theoretical and Computational Physics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1506.01098

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Abstract

If quenched to zero temperature, the one-dimensional Ising spin chain undergoes coarsening, whereby the density of domain walls decays algebraically in time. We show that this coarsening process can be interrupted by exerting a rapidly oscillating periodic field with enough strength to compete with the spin-spin interaction. By analyzing correlation functions and the distribution of domain lengths both analytically and numerically, we observe nontrivial correlation with more than one length scale at the threshold field strength.

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