RELAXATION OF DISORDERED MAGNETS IN THE GRIFFITHS REGIME

We study the relaxation to equilibrium of discrete spin systems with r andom finite range (not necessarily ferromagnetic) interactions in the Griffiths' regime. We prove that the speed of convergence to the uniq ue reversible Gibbs measure is almost surely faster than any stretched exponential, at least if the probability distribution of the interact ion decays faster than exponential (e.g. Gaussian). Furthermore, if th e interaction is uniformly bounded, the average over the disorder of t he time-autocorrelation function, goes to equilibrium as exp[-k(log t) (d/(d-1))] (in d > 1), in agreement with previous results obtained for the dilute Ising model.