title: Influence of thermal fluctuations on the geometry of interfaces of the quenched Ising model.
abstract: We study the role of the quench temperature Tf in the phase-ordering kinetics of the Ising model with single spin flip in d=2,3 . Equilibrium interfaces are flat at Tf=0 , whereas at Tf>0 they are curved and rough (above the roughening temperature in d=3 ). We show, by means of scaling arguments and numerical simulations, that this geometrical difference is important for the phase-ordering kinetics as well. In particular, while the growth exponent z=2 of the size of domains L(t) approximately t 1/z is unaffected by Tf, other exponents related to the interface geometry take different values at Tf=0 or Tf>0 . For Tf>0 a crossover phenomenon is observed from an early stage where interfaces are still flat and the system behaves as at Tf=0 , to the asymptotic regime with curved interfaces characteristic of Tf>0 . Furthermore, it is shown that the roughening length, although subdominant with respect to L(t) , produces appreciable correction to scaling up to very long times in d=2 .
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università di Salerno, via Ponte don Melillo, Fisciano SA, Italy.
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Corberi
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lippiello
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zannetti