A deterministic model of competitive cluster growth: glassy dynamics, metastability and pattern formation

J. M. Luck () and A. Mehta ()

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2005, vol. 44, issue 1, 79-92

Abstract: We investigate a model of interacting clusters which compete for growth. For a finite assembly of coupled clusters, the largest one always wins, so that all but this one die out in a finite time. This scenario of ‘survival of the biggest’ still holds in the mean-field limit, where the model exhibits glassy dynamics, with two well separated time scales, corresponding to individual and collective behaviour. The survival probability of a cluster eventually falls off according to the universal law (ln t)-1/2. Beyond mean field, the dynamics exhibits both aging and metastability, with a finite fraction of the clusters surviving forever and forming a non-trivial spatial pattern. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2005

Date: 2005
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