Eur. Phys. J. B (2012) 85: 300
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2012-30468-4

Regular Article

Domain growth and aging scaling in coarsening disordered systems

Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 24061-0435 Virginia, USA

^a e-mail: Michel.Pleimling@vt.edu

Received: 12 June 2012
Received in final form: 11 July 2012
Published online: 5 September 2012

Abstract

Using extensive Monte Carlo simulations we study aging properties of two disordered systems quenched below their critical point, namely the two-dimensional random-bond Ising model and the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass with a bimodal distribution of the coupling constants. We study the two-times autocorrelation and space-time correlation functions and show that in both systems a simple aging scenario prevails in terms of the scaling variable L(t)/L(s), where L is the time-dependent correlation length, whereas s is the waiting time and t is the observation time. The investigation of the space-time correlation function for the random-bond Ising model allows us to address some issues related to superuniversality.