PHASE ORDERING IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS WITH LONG-RANGE INTERACTIONS

We study the dynamics of phase ordering of a nonconserved, scalar order parameter in one dimension, with long-range interactions characterized by a power law r-d-sigma. In contrast to higher-dimensional systems, the point nature of the defects allows simpler analytic and numerical methods. We find that, at least for sigma > 1, the model exhibits evolution to a self-similar state characterized by a length scale which grows with time as t1/(1+sigma), and that the late-time dynamics is independent of the initial length scale. The insensitivity of the dynamics to the initial conditions is consistent with the scenario of an attractive, nontrivial renormalization-group fixed point which governs the late-time behavior. For or less-than-or-equal-to 1 we find indications in both the simulations and an analytic method that this behavior may be dependent on system size.