DOMAIN GROWTH IN COMPRESSIBLE 2D ISING MODELS UNDERGOING PHASE SEPARATION

Abstract

High precision Monte Carlo simulations are used to study domain growth in a compressible two-dimensional spin-exchange Ising model with continuous particle positions and zero total magnetization. For mismatched systems, we measure significant deviations from the theoretically expected late-time domain growth, R(t) = A + Btn with n = 1/3. For a compressible model with no mismatch, we measure only a slight deviation from n = 1/3. Our results indicate that our current understanding of domain growth is incomplete.