One-dimensional kinetic Ising model with competing spin-flip and spin-exchange dynamics: Ordering in the case of long-range exchanges

Abstract

Ordering of a one-dimensional stochastic Ising model evolving by a combination of spin flips and spin exchanges is investigated. The spin-flip rates satisfy detailed balance for the equilibrium state of the Ising model at temperature T, while the spin exchanges are random and of arbitrary range. Analytical methods and Monte Carlo simulations are used to show that, depending on the details of the spin-flip rate, finite-temperature phase transition may or may not occur in the system. When ordering occurs, it is of mean-field type and the scaling function describing the finite-size scaling of the magnetization fluctuations is found to be indistinguishable from that of an equilibrium Ising model with infinite-range interaction.