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arXiv:1402.4250 · Physical Review E

Nonlinear response for external field and perturbation in the Vlasov system

Shun Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi

Published May 12, 2014• 17 citations
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Abstract

A nonlinear response theory is provided by use of the transient linearization method in the spatially one-dimensional Vlasov systems. The theory inclusively gives responses to external fields and to perturbations for initial stationary states, and is applicable even to the critical point of a second-order phase transition. We apply the theory to the Hamiltonian mean-field model, a toy model of a ferromagnetic body, and investigate the critical exponent associated with the response to the external field at the critical point in particular. The obtained critical exponent is the nonclassical value 3/2, while the classical value is 3. However, interestingly, one scaling relation holds with another nonclassical critical exponent of susceptibility in the isolated Vlasov systems. Validity of the theory is numerically confirmed by directly simulating temporal evolutions of the Vlasov equation.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.89.052114

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Mean-field theory tells us that the classical critical exponent of susceptibility is twice that of magnetization. However, linear response theory based on the Vlasov equation, which is naturally introduced by the mean-field nature, makes the former exponent half of the latter for families of quasistationary states having second order phase transitions in the Hamiltonian mean-field model and its variances, in the low-energy phase. We clarify that this strange exponent is due to the existence of Casimir invariants which trap the system in a quasistationary state for a time scale diverging with the system size. The theoretical prediction is numerically confirmed by N-body simulations for the equilibrium states and a family of quasistationary states.
An external force dynamically drives an isolated mean-field Hamiltonian system to a long-lasting quasistationary state, whose lifetime increases with population of the system. For second order phase transitions in quasistationary states, two non-classical critical exponents have been reported individually by using a linear and a nonlinear response theories in a toy model. We provide a simple way to compute the critical exponents all at once, which is an analog of the Landau theory. The present theory extends universality class of the non-classical exponents to spatially periodic one-dimensional systems, and shows that the exponents satisfy a classical scaling relation inevitably by using a key scaling of momentum.
The problem of nonlinear response is considered by employing a general time-evolution equation, and a Green's function which is the transition or conditional probability density for an unperturbed system. Expansion of the Green's function in terms of orthonormal functions enables us to express the distribution function describing the nonlinear behavior by means of matrix products whose elements are composed of correlation functions in the absence of the perturbation. In other words, it is shown how the distribution function induced by a strong perturbation may be calculated by knowing the Green's function without the perturbation. As the special case of the linear response, we have obtained Kubo's relation. The Laplace-transform technique with respect to time is found quite useful in developing the present theory in which the transient effect is also taken into account. As an application of the theory, a new relation valid in the region of the second-order perturbation connecting the transient rise and decay with the stationary alternating perturbations has been obtained.
A renormalization group theory for the nonlinear and nonequilibrium responses to linearly varying external probes is formulated for the critical dynamics of a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation with a scalar nonconserved order parameter. A series of nonequilibrium dynamic critical exponents and their scaling relations characterizing the time-dependent probes and the nonequilibrium hysteresis induced are derived analytically and systematically and agree well with numerical results. The three-dimensional dynamic critical exponent is accordingly determined as z = 2.036(11). These show that the linearly varying external fields can be applied to probe criticality effectively.
We consider a ferromagnet in an external magnetic field with $T\ensuremath{\le}{T}_{c}$. Using a variational approximation based on the zero-field solution, we obtain an upper bound on the free energy, an approximate equation of state, and a lower bound on the magnetization, all having the correct critical indices. Explicit numerical calculations have been carried out for the two-dimensional Ising model, and we find that our results provide a good approximation to the results of series expansions throughout the region $T\ensuremath{\le}{T}_{c}$. We also apply our procedure to the eight-vertex model. Metastability can be discussed within our approximation in a manner analogous to the way it is dealt with in mean-field theory. In our treatment, the critical exponents have nonclassical values, but the pseudocritical exponents all represent square-root singularities, which is the same result as found within mean-field theory.