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Physical Review A

Time-Dependent Statistics of the Ising Model in a Magnetic Field

Huey Wen Huang

Published Nov 1, 1973• 19 citations
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Abstract

It is of interest to solve the master equation of a one-dimensional Ising model in a magnetic field (Glauber's equation) not only as a mathematical problem, but also for some practical applications. While an exact treatment of Glauber's equation seems impossible, we consider its approximate solutions. We review the applications of the perturbation-expansion method and applications of the mean-field theory to this problem. We also introduce a local-equilibrium method that improves the mean-field theory by taking the short-range correlation into account. The new method yields an analytically soluble differential equation, which, contrary to the preceding two methods, has an exact steady-state solution.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.8.2553

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In this work we study the Glauber dynamics of the one-dimensional Ising model with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor interactions, for which an approximate solution of the magnetization per site is obtained. When the dynamical critical exponent z is investigated following the treatment of Cordery, Sarker, and Tobochnik [Phys. Rev. B 24, 5402 (1981)], our observation shows that its upper-bound value is the same as the known value, thus implying that z is independent of the range of the interaction. We also suggest a high-temperature expansion approximation which is then used to solve the two-dimensional Glauber dynamics governed by a master equation; this solution is compared with that of the decoupling method. The time-delayed correlation function is also calculated.
We have applied the Glauber and Metropolis prescriptions to investigate the stationary states of the Ising model in one and two dimensions. We have employed the formalism of the master equation to follow the evolution of the system towards the stationary states. Although the Glauber and Metropolis transition rates lead the system to the same equilibrium states for the Ising model in the Monte Carlo simulations, we show that they can predict different results if we disregard the correlations between spins. The critical temperature of the one-dimensional Ising model cannot even be found by using the Metropolis algorithm and the mean field approximation. However, taking into account only correlations between nearest neighbor spins, the resulting stationary states become identical for both Glauber and Metropolis transition rates.
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