Domain Growth in Long-range Ising Models with Disorder

Recent advances have highlighted the rich low-temperature kinetics of the long-range Ising model (LRIM). This study investigates domain growth in an LRIM with quenched disorder, following a deep low-temperature quench. Specifically, we consider an Ising model with interactions that decay as J(r) ~ r-(D+σ), where D is the spatial dimension and $σ> 0$ is the power-law exponent. The quenched disorder is introduced via random pinning fields at each lattice site. For nearest-neighbor models, we expect that domain growth during activated dynamics is logarithmic in nature: R(t) ~ (ln t)^α, with growth exponent $α>0$. Here, we examine how long-range interactions influence domain growth with disorder in dimensions $D = 1$ and $D = 2$. In $D = 1$, logarithmic growth is found to persist for various $σ> 0$. However, in $D = 2$, the dynamics is more complex due to the non-trivial interplay between extended interactions, disorder, and thermal fluctuations.