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arXiv:0912.0412 · Physical Review E

Cluster-algorithm renormalization-group study of universal fluctuations in the two-dimensional Ising model

Guillermo Palma, D. Zambrano

Published Dec 30, 2008• 3 citations
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Abstract

In this paper we propose a method to study critical systems numerically, which combines collective-mode algorithms and renormalization group on the lattice. This method is an improved version of the Monte Carlo renormalization group in the sense that it has all the advantages of cluster algorithms. As an application we considered the 2D Ising model and studied whether scale invariance or universality are possible underlying mechanisms responsible for the approximate "universal fluctuations" close to a so-called bulk temperature T(L) . "Universal fluctuations" were first proposed in the work of Bramwell, Holdsworth, and Pinton [Nature (London) 396, 552 (1998)] and stated that the probability density function of a global quantity for very dissimilar systems, such as a confined turbulent flow and a two-dimensional (2D) magnetic system, properly normalized to the first two moments, becomes similar to the "universal distribution," originally obtained for magnetization in the 2D XY model in the low-temperature region. The results for the critical exponents and the renormalization-group flow of the probability density function are very accurate and show no evidence to support that the approximate common shape of the PDF should be related to both scale invariance or universal behavior.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.78.061134

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We present a self consistent method based on cluster algorithms and Renormalization Group on the lattice to study critical systems numerically. We illustrate it by means of the 2D Ising model. We compute the critical exponents ννν and ηηη and the renormalization group flow of the probability density function of the magnetization. The results, compared to the standard Monte Carlo Renormalization Group proposed by Swendsen [1], are very accurate and the method works faster by a factor which grows monotonically with the lattice size. This allows to simulate larger lattices in reachable computational times.
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We propose an interpretation of previous experiments and numerical experiments showing that, for a large class of systems, distributions of global quantities are similar to a distribution originally obtained for the magnetization in the 2D-XY model (Bramwell S. T. et al. , Nature , 396 (1998) 512). This approach, developed for the Ising model, is based on previous numerical observations (Clusel M. et al. , Phys. Rev. E , 70 (2004) 046112). We obtain an effective action using a perturbative method, which successfully describes the order parameter fluctuations near the phase transition. This leads to a direct link between the D-dimensional Ising model and the XY model in the same dimension, which appears to be a generic feature of many equilibrium critical systems and which is at the heart of the above observations.
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The critical relaxation of the magnetization in a 2D Ising model with quenched random non-magnetic impurities is studied by numerical simulation. A square lattice of size 400 2 and spin concentrations p = 1.0, 0.95, 0.9, 0.85, 0.8, 0.75 and 0.7 are considered. The dynamical critical exponent z is determined by the dynamical renormalization group Monte Carlo method. The values for z(p) are: z (1) = 2.24 ± 0.07, z (0.95) = 2.24 ± 0.06, z (0.9) = 2.24 ± 0.06, z (0.85) = 2.38 ± 0.05, z (0.8) = 2.51 ± 0.06, z (0.75) = 2.66 ± 0.07 and z (0.7) = 2.88 ± 0.06. A singular dynamic-scaling behaviour with z(p) = A '|ln( p − p c )| + B ' is found for systems with spin concentrations near the percolation threshold p c , where A ' = 0.56 ± 0.07 and B ' = 1.62 ± 0.07 are temperature-independent constants.
Order parameter fluctuations for the two dimensional Ising model in the region of the critical temperature are presented. A locus of temperatures T*(L) and of magnetic fields B*(L) are identified, for which the probability density function is similar to that for the 2D-XY model in the spin wave approximation.The characteristics of the fluctuations along these points are largely independent of universality class. We show that the largest range of fluctuations relative to the variance of the distribution occurs along these loci of points, rather than at the critical temperature itself and we discuss this observation in terms of intermittency. Our motivation is the identification of a generic form for fluctuations in correlated systems in accordance with recent experimental and numerical observations. We conclude that a universality class dependent form for the fluctuations is a particularity of critical phenomena related to the change in symmetry at a phase transition.