1994/08/19 by J. Kisker H. Rieger, M. Schreckenberg
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat #hep-lat
published as J. Phys. A 27 (1994) L853 · RevTeX 11 pages + 9 figures (appended as uuencoded compressed tar-file), THP71-94
arxiv created 1994/08/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The non-equilibrium dynamics of a one-dimensional Ising model with uniform, short-ranged three-spin interactions is investigated. It is shown that this model possesses an exponentially large number of metastable configurations that are stable against single spin flips. This glass-like situation results in a complete freezing of the system at low temperatures for times smaller than an intrinsic time-scale, which diverges exponentially with inverse temperature. Via thermal activation the system eventually escapes from this frozen state, which is signals the onset of aging by domain growth.