title: Interrupted coarsening in a driven kinetically constrained Ising chain.
abstract: We introduce a driven version of the one-dimensional kinetically constrained spin chain [J. Jackle and S. Eisinger, Zeitschr. Phys. B 84, 115 (1991)]. In its original undriven version, this model shows anomalous coarsening following a quench to a low temperature, with an equilibration time that diverges as approximately exp(1/T(2)) for T-->0. We show that driving of constant rate gamma; interrupts coarsening and stabilizes the chain in a state analogous to that of a coarsening chain of age 1/gamma;. We present an analytical theory for this steady state, and demonstrate it to be in excellent agreement with our simulation results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Suzanne M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Fielding