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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Real-space dynamic renormalization group. II. Simple examples

Gene F. Mazenko, Michael J. Nolan, Oriol T. Valls

Published Aug 1, 1980• 19 citations
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Abstract

The real-space renormalization-group method for the dynamics of critical phenomena introduced in the previous paper is applied to two calculations within the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model on a triangular lattice. In both cases a cumulant expansion in the intercell couplings is performed. In the first calculation are found the most general first-order recursion relations coupling neighboring cells. From these recursion relations is extracted the dynamic critical exponent $z=1.70$. While this is a reasonable first-order result, the results for the statics are not as satisfactory. In the second calculation it is shown how the terms that are generated at second order are important in determining the static results. We obtain at second order $z=2.22$, together with a critical coupling ${K}_{c}=0.251$ and a thermal critical index $\ensuremath{\nu}=0.950$.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.22.1275

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A systematic real-space dynamic renormalization group method is proposed and it is applied to the kinetic Ising model on a triangular lattice. The coarse grained master equation is constructed by using the memory function formalism and the Markov approximation. The high temperature series renormalization group method proposed by Betts, Cuthiell and Plischke is extended for the present purpose to make a perturbation expansion in a self-consistent way with respect to all orders of interactions. Terms nonlocal in space appear in the coarse grained time-evolution operator in our approach, because of the memory effect accompanied with the coarse graining procedure. It is shown within the second order calculation that these nonlocal terms are irrelevant around the nontrivial fixed point. The values of the static exponent ν and dynamic exponent z are given by 1/ν = 0.99 and z = 2.23 from the present second order calculation. These results are quite reasonable.
In this paper we systematize the real-space dynamic-renormalization-group method we developed elsewhere. We treat the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model with relaxational dynamics defined on a square lattice. We show how one can set up a systematic perturbation-theory expansion which treats the coupling between cells of spins as a small parameter. The novel feature of the expansion is that it provides a method for determining the appropriate effective interaction between spins in a set of uncoupled cells. By obtaining a good zeroth-order approximation for a set of uncoupled cells, one finds that the effective interaction between cells is reduced. Similar ideas are also applied to the dynamics of the problem and we indicate how one can obtain a good zeroth-order approximation in terms of the dynamics of uncoupled cells. We couple these perturbation theory ideas to the real-space dynamic-renormalization-group method and carry out explicit calculations of a variety of observable quantities including the magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, static structure factor, time-dependent spin-autocorrelation function, and the dynamic structure factor. In every case we obtain excellent results in keeping with the scaling behavior near the phase transition and the high-temperature limit.
A new formulation of the renormalization-group in real space, suitable for quantum spin systems is proposed. The method is applied to the two-dimensional spin-12\frac{1}{2}21​ $X\ensuremath{-}Y$ model on a triangular lattice, the renormalization-group transformation being evaluated up to second order in an appropriate cumulant expansion. To first order an unstable fixed point of the transformation is found, corresponding to a critical temperature and critical indices in satisfactory qualitative agreement with present high-temperature series expansion estimates. In the second-order calculation, however, this fixed point disappears, thus throwing some doubt on the conventional picture of criticality as furnished by high-temperature series. The free energy of the model is also computed. For relatively small values of the nearest-neighbor coupling it is in good agreement with that found by high-temperature series analysis.
A previously developed real-space renormalization-group approach to critical dynamics is examined. A correction to the formalism has to be introduced. The need for this correction is demonstrated through an exactly soluble one-dimensional Ising model. The new version imposes additional serious limitations on the usefulness of the method within standard approximation schemes. The second-order cumulant approximation of the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model on a triangular lattice is used to demonstrate these limitations.