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View SchemaDynamical Scaling Behavior of the Swift-Hohenberg Equation Following a Quench to the Modulated State
| Authors | Qing Hou, Shin-ichi Sasa, Nigel Goldenfeld |
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| ArXiv ID | patt-sol/9808001 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9808001 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00480-3 |
| Journal | Physica A 239, 219-226 (1997) |
Abstract
We study the kinetics of phase transitions in a Rayleigh-Benard system after onset of convection using 2D Swift-Hohenberg equation. An initially uniform state evolves to one whose ground state is spatially periodic. We confirmed previous results which showed that dynamical scaling occurs at medium quench ($\epsilon = 0.25$) with scaling exponents 1/5 and 1/4 under zero noise and finite noise respectively. We find logarithmic scaling behavior for a deep quench ($\epsilon = 0.75$) at zero noise. A simple method is devised to measure the proxy of domain wall length. We find that the energy and domain wall length exhibit scaling behavior with the same exponent. For $\epsilon = 0.25$, the scaling exponents are 1/4 and 0.3 at zero and finite noise respectively.
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"doi": "10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00480-3",
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"title": "Dynamical Scaling Behavior of the Swift-Hohenberg Equation Following a Quench to the Modulated State",
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