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Response of non-equilibrium systems at criticality: Ferromagnetic models in dimension two and above

arXiv:cond-mat/0001264 · doi:10.1088/0305-4470/33/50/302

Abstract

We study the dynamics of ferromagnetic spin systems quenched from infinite temperature to their critical point. We show that these systems are aging in the long-time regime, i.e., their two-time autocorrelation and response functions and associated fluctuation-dissipation ratio are non-trivial scaling functions of both time variables. This is exemplified by the exact analysis of the spherical model in any dimension D>2, and by numerical simulations on the two-dimensional Ising model. We show in particular that, for (waiting time) (observation time), the fluctuation-dissipation ratio possesses a non-trivial limit value , which appears as a dimensionless amplitude ratio, and is therefore a novel universal characteristic of non-equilibrium critical dynamics. For the spherical model, we obtain for 2<D<4, and for D>4 (mean-field regime). For the two-dimensional Ising model we measure .

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