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Universal aspects of vacancy-mediated disordering dynamics: The effect of external fields
Physical Review E (2000)
  • Wannapong Triampo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Timo Aspelmeier
  • Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Abstract

We investigate the disordering of an initially phase-segregated binary alloy, due to a highly mobile defect which couples to an electric or gravitational field. Using both mean-field and Monte Carlo methods, we show that the late stages of this process exhibit dynamic scaling, characterized by a set of exponents and scaling functions. A new scaling variable emerges, associated with the field. While the scaling functions carry information about the field and the boundary conditions, the exponents are universal. They can be computed analytically, in excellent agreement with simulation results.

Publication Date
March 1, 2000
Publisher Statement
Copyright 2000 American Physical Society. Posted with permission.
Citation Information
Wannapong Triampo, Timo Aspelmeier and Beate Schmittmann. "Universal aspects of vacancy-mediated disordering dynamics: The effect of external fields" Physical Review E Vol. 61 (2000)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/beate_schmittmann/19/