Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
Mixing heat-bath and Glauber dynamics: damage spreading in the Ising model
Ananias M. Mariz, Hans Jürgen Herrmann
Abstract
The authors study damage spreading in the Ising model, on a square lattice, by a Monte Carlo approach, using a general 'f-dynamics' (0<or=f<or=1) which reproduces, for f=0 the well known heat-bath dynamics and for f=1 Glauber dynamics. They find, for initially small damage, a critical value f c =0.50+or-0.03 as the threshold for damage spreading. For f c <f<or=1 the damage is non-zero only for T c <T<T 0 (f), where T c is the usual critical temperature and T 0 (f) rises with f like T 0 (f)-T c infinity (f-f c ) alpha ( alpha =0.83+or-0.08). For T c <or=T the damage D(T,f) seems to satisfy the scaling relation D(T,f) approximately mod 1n(f-f c ) mod -1 T((1-T c /T)/(f-f c ) alpha ).