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1Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur PO, Bangalore 560064, India.
Abstract:
We present results from a study of finite-size effect in the kinetics of domain growth with conserved order parameter for a critical quench. Our observation of a weak size effect is a significant and surprising result. For diffusive dynamics, appropriate scaling analysis of Monte Carlo results obtained for small systems using a two-dimensional Ising model also shows that the correction to the expected Lifshitz-Slyozov law for the domain growth is very small. The methods used in this work to understand the growth dynamics should find application in other nonequilibrium systems with increasing length scales.
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