title: Effect of shear on persistence in coarsening systems.
abstract: We analytically study the effect of a uniform shear flow on the persistence properties of coarsening systems. The study is carried out within the anisotropic Ohta-Jasnow-Kawasaki (OJK) approximation for a system with nonconserved scalar order parameter. We find that the persistence exponent theta has a nontrivial value: theta = 0.5034 in space dimension d = 3, and theta = 0.2406 for d = 2, the latter being exactly twice the value found for the unsheared system in d = 1. We also find that the autocorrelation exponent lambda is affected by shear in d = 3 but not in d = 2.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Astronomy, The University, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: N P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Rapapa
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Bray