Differences in the scaling laws of canonical and microcanonical coarsening dynamics

Fabio Staniscia, Romain Bachelard, Thierry Dauxois, Giovanni De Ninno

Published 2019-01-07Version 1

We investigate the effects of Hamiltonian and Langevin microscopic dynamics on the growth laws of domains in coarsening. Using a one-dimensional class of generalized $\phi^4$ models with power-law decaying interactions, we show that the two dynamics exhibit scaling regimes characterized by different scaling laws for the coarsening dynamics. For Langevin dynamics, it concurs with the exponent of defect dynamics, while Hamiltonian dynamics reveals new scaling laws with distinct early-time and a late-time regimes. This new behaviour can be understood as an effect of energy conservation, which induces a coupling between the dynamics of the local temperature field and of the order parameter, eventually resulting in smooth interfaces between the domains.