Evolution of speckle during spinodal decomposition

Details Evolution of speckle during spinodal decomposition Evolution of speckle during spinodal decomposition

1999-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9905343v2

Phys. Rev. E 60, 5151 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

RevTex: 11 pages + 12 figures, submitted to PRE

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.60.5151

Time-dependent properties of the speckled intensity patterns created by scattering coherent radiation from materials undergoing spinodal decomposition are investigated by numerical integration of the Cahn-Hilliard-Cook equation. For binary systems which obey a local conservation law, the characteristic domain size is known to grow in time $\tau$ as $R = [B \tau]^n$ with n=1/3, where B is a constant. The intensities of individual speckles are found to be nonstationary, persistent time series. The two-time intensity covariance at wave vector ${\bf k}$ can be collapsed onto a scaling function $Cov(\delta t,\bar{t})$, where $\delta t = k^{1/n} B |\tau_2-\tau_1|$ and $\bar{t} = k^{1/n} B (\tau_1+\tau_2)/2$. Both analytically and numerically, the covariance is found to depend on $\delta t$ only through $\delta t/\bar{t}$ in the small-$\bar{t}$ limit and $\delta t/\bar{t} ^{1-n}$ in the large-$\bar{t}$ limit, consistent with a simple theory of moving interfaces that applies to any universality class described by a scalar order parameter. The speckle-intensity covariance is numerically demonstrated to be equal to the square of the two-time structure factor of the scattering material, for which an analytic scaling function is obtained for large $\bar{t}.$ In addition, the two-time, two-point order-parameter correlation function is found to scale as $C(r/(B^n\sqrt{\tau_1^{2n}+\tau_2^{2n}}),\tau_1/\tau_2)$, even for quite large distances $r$. The asymptotic power-law exponent for the autocorrelation function is found to be $\lambda \approx 4.47$, violating an upper bound conjectured by Fisher and Huse.

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