Spinodal decomposition and the tomita sum rule

The scaling properties of a phase-ordering system with a conserved order parameter are studied. The theory developed leads to scaling functions satisfying certain general properties including the Tomita sum rule. The theory also gives good agreement with numerical results for the order parameter scaling function in three dimensions. The values of the associated nonequilibrium decay exponents are given by the known lower bounds.

Perturbation expansion in phase-ordering kinetics. II. N-vector model

The perturbation theory expansion presented earlier to describe the phase-ordering kinetics in the case of a nonconserved scalar order parameter is generalized to the case of the n-vector model. At lowest order in this expansion, as in the scalar case, one obtains the theory due to Ohta, Jasnow, and Kawasaki (OJK). The second-order corrections for the nonequilibrium exponents are worked out explicitly in d dimensions and as a function of the number of components n of the order parameter. In the formulation developed here the corrections to the OJK results are found to go to zero in the large n and d limits. Indeed, the large-d convergence is exponential.