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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Non-equilibrium relaxation at a tricritical point

H K Janssen, Klaus Oerding

Published Feb 7, 1994• 37 citations
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Abstract

We study the purely relaxational tricritical dynamics of a non-conserved order parameter (model A) in the upper critical dimension d c =3 and in 3- epsilon dimensions. We are especially interested in the relaxation, starting from a macroscopically prepared initial state with a small correlation length. Using the methods of renormalized field theory we obtain the scaling behaviour of the correlation and response functions and study the nonlinear relaxation of the order parameter M(t). In three dimensions M(t) displays a crossover from the purely logarithmic short-time behaviour M(t) approximately (In(t/t 0 )) -a to a t - 1 4 / power law with logarithmic corrections. For dimensions d<3 we obtain the exponents which govern the tricritical relaxation at lowest non-trivial order in epsilon =3-d. The dynamic scaling exponent z is calculated at second order in epsilon .

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/27/3/016

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The authors study nonequilibrium critical relaxation properties of model C (purely dissipative relaxation of an order parameter coupled to a conserved density) starting from a macroscopically prepared initial state with short-range correlations. Using a field-theoretic renormalization group approach they show that all the stages of growth of the correlation length display universal behaviour governed by a new critical exponent theta . This exponent is calculated to second order in in =4-d where d is the spatial dimension of the system.
The non-equilibrium critical relaxation of systems in which the order parameter couples reversibly to conserved densities is investigated. The initial state which may be macroscopically prepared by a quench from a temperature T >> T c to the critical temperature T c is characterized by short-range correlations. In the case where the order parameter itself is conserved the relaxation shows universal scaling. If, on the other hand, the order parameter is not conserved the scaling is governed by a new exponent which depends on the width of the initial distribution of the conserved fields. However, the response function of the conserved fields still shows universal scaling.
We now begin our exposition of universal dynamic scaling behavior that emerges under non-equilibrium conditions. We are mainly concerned with the relaxational models A and B here, but also touch on other dynamic universality classes. First, we consider non-equilibrium critical relaxation from a disordered initial state, and compute the associated universal scaling exponents within the dynamic renormalization group framework. Related phenomena in the early-time regime, prior to reaching temporally translationally invariant asymptotics, are ‘aging’ and a non-equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation ratio, both of which have enjoyed prominence in the literature on ‘glassy’ kinetics. In this context, we derive the critical initial slip exponent for the order parameter, and briefly discuss interesting persistence properties. Second, we explore the long-time scaling laws in phase ordering kinetics and coarsening for the relaxational models, following a fast temperature ‘quench’ into the ordered phase, in systems with either non-conserved or conserved order parameters. Aside from a few explicit computations in the spherical model limit (wherein the number of order parameter components n → ∞), we largely employ phenomenological considerations and scaling theory, stressing the importance of topological defects for energy dissipation during coarsening. Next we address the question how violations of Einstein's relation that links relaxation coefficients and noise correlations might affect the asymptotic dynamic critical scaling behavior. Whereas in systems with non-conserved order parameter typically the equilibrium scaling laws are recovered in the vicinity of the critical point, in contrast genuinely novel universality classes may emerge in the case of a conserved parameter, provided it is driven out of equilibrium in a spatially anisotropic fashion.
We investigate the critical relaxation of dilute Ising systems starting from a macroscopically prepared initial state with short-range correlations. Using the methods of renormalized field theory we calculate the exponent theta ' which describes the initial increase of the magnetization to second order in square root epsilon , where epsilon =4-d. Since computer simulations of the dilute Ising model have shown that a large part of the critical region is governed by crossover phenomena, we also discuss the influence of the slow crossover on the relaxation.
Renormalisation of a field theory model for tricritical behaviour in which the operator phi 6 is essential for thermodynamic stability is discussed in d=4- epsilon dimensions. The crossover scaling form of the equation of state is obtained explicitly to first order in epsilon for both positive and negative values of the four-spin coupling constant. Orthodox scaling, involving Gaussian tricritical exponents is obtained, but is shown to be physically inappropriate in the ordered region of the symmetry plane. A reformulation of scaling, using classical tricritical exponents is possible, but involves an additional parameter p with its own scaling exponent phi p =- 1 / 2 (1- epsilon ). This parameter, introduced by Sarbach and Fisher for the many-component, spherical model limit, is related to the coefficient of (nabla phi ) 2 in the field-theoretic Hamiltonian.