Coarsening in diluted systems

We investigate domain growth after a quench to the unstable region of the phase diagram on a lattice lacking translational invariance due to the presence of voids. The dynamical process is analyzed using a Ginzburg-Landau model with Langevin dynamics, studied numerically by means of a cell dynamical simulation in d = 2 for conserved order parameter at T F = 0. We find that for short times ordering proceeds as on compact substrates (L(t) ∼ t 1/3 ): later on, when L(t) becomes comparable to the typical distance separating voids, coarsening occurs only via activated processes and for T F = 0 the system freezes out of equilibrium.