Persistence in One-dimensional Ising Models with Parallel Dynamics

We study persistence in one-dimensional ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor Ising models with parallel dynamics. The probability P(t) that a given spin has not flipped up to time t, when the system evolves from an initial random configuration, decays as P(t) sim 1/t^theta_p with theta_p simeq 0.75 numerically. A mapping to the dynamics of two decoupled A+A to 0 models yields theta_p = 3/4 exactly. A finite size scaling analysis clarifies the nature of dynamical scaling in the distribution of persistent sites obtained under this dynamics.