Abstract
The kinetics of phase ordering has been investigated for numerous systems via the growth of the characteristic length scale ell (t) sim t^{alpha } quantifying the size of ordered domains as a function of time t, where alpha is the growth exponent. The behavior of the squared magnetization langle m(t)^{2}rangle has mostly been ignored, even though it is one of the most fundamental observables for spin systems. This is most likely due to its vanishing for quenches in the thermodynamic limit. For finite systems, on the other hand, we show that the squared magnetization does not vanish and may be used as an easier to extract alternative to the characteristic length. In particular, using analytical arguments and numerical simulations, we show that for quenches into the ordered phase, one finds langle m(t)^{2} rangle sim m_0^2 t^{dalpha }/V, where m_0 is the equilibrium magnetization, d the spatial dimension, and V the volume of the system.
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