Limiting Shapes of Ising Droplets, Ising Fingers, and Ising Solitons

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2011-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/1111.6209v2

Phys. Rev. E 85, 011152 (2012)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 3 figures; version 2: two figures and references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.85.011152

We examine the evolution of an Ising ferromagnet endowed with zero-temperature single spin-flip dynamics. A large droplet of one phase in the sea of the opposite phase eventually disappears. An interesting behavior occurs in the intermediate regime when the droplet is still very large compared to the lattice spacing, but already very small compared to the initial size. In this regime the shape of the droplet is essentially deterministic (fluctuations are negligible in comparison with characteristic size). In two dimensions the shape is also universal, that is, independent on the initial shape. We analytically determine the limiting shape of the Ising droplet on the square lattice. When the initial state is a semi-infinite stripe of one phase in the sea of the opposite phase, it evolves into a finger which translates along its axis. We determine the limiting shape and the velocity of the Ising finger on the square lattice. An analog of the Ising finger on the cubic lattice is the translating Ising soliton. We show that far away from the tip, the cross-section of the Ising soliton coincides with the limiting shape of the two-dimensional Ising droplet and we determine a relation between the cross-section area, the distance from the tip, and the velocity of the soliton.

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