title: Persistence in systems with algebraic interaction.
abstract: Persistence in coarsening one-dimensional spin systems with a power-law interaction r(-1-sigma) is considered. Numerical studies indicate that for sufficiently large values of the interaction exponent sigma (sigma > or =1/2 in our simulations), persistence decays as an algebraic function of the length scale L, P(L) approximately L(-theta). The persistence exponent theta is found to be independent on the force exponent sigma and close to its value for the extremal (sigma-->infinity) model, theta =0.175 075 88. For smaller values of the force exponent (sigma < 1/2), finite size effects prevent the system from reaching the asymptotic regime. Scaling arguments suggest that in order to avoid significant boundary effects for small sigma, the system size should grow as [O(1/sigma)](1/sigma).
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 rue University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8.
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authors.lastname: Ispolatov