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Progress of Theoretical Physics

Real-Space Renormalization Group Approach to Critical Dynamics: -- Migdal Approximation and Other New Methods --

Masuo Suzuki, Kiyoshi Sogo, Ikuo Matsuba, H. Ikeda, Terumi Chikama, Hiroshi Takano

Published Mar 1, 1979• 28 citations
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This paper represents some general aspects of real-space renormalization group approach to critical dynamics. The main idea is to combine Kadanoff's cell analysis with coarse graining of time corresponding to Markoffian approximation, which has been proposed by Suzuki to derive the dynamic scaling law. In order to realize this idea explicitly, the Migdal approximation is extended to the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model, to obtain z=1.96 for the dynamical critical exponent z. This result agrees very well with the value z=2.0±0.05 obtained by Yahata and Suzuki in a high temperature expansion method. Other new methods for real-space RGA are also proposed.

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10.1143/ptp.61.864

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This paper represents some general aspects of real-space renormalization group approach to critical dynamics. The main idea is to combine Kadanoff's cell analysis with coarse graining of time corresponding to Markoffian approximation, which has been proposed by Suzuki to derive the dynamic scaling law. In order to realize this idea explicitly, the Migdal approximation is extended to the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model, to obtain z=1.96 for the dynamical critical exponent z. This result agrees very well with the value z=2.0±0.05 obtained by Yahata and Suzuki in a high temperature expansion method. Other new methods for real-space RGA are also proposed.
We make use of the calculation of Achiam and Kosterlitz and investigate the generalization of the Migdal-type renormalization-group calculation to critical dynamics, by looking at the one- and two-dimensional kinetic Ising model with no conserved magnetization. In the two-dimensional case the dynamical critical index ZM(magneticperturbation)=2.064{Z}_{M}(\mathrm{magnetic}\mathrm{perturbation})=2.064ZM​(magneticperturbation)=2.064 and ZE(energylikeperturbation)=1.819{Z}_{E}(\mathrm{energylike}\mathrm{perturbation})=1.819ZE​(energylikeperturbation)=1.819 for scale factor $\ensuremath{\lambda}=1$. ZM{Z}_{M}ZM​ involves the static $\frac{\ensuremath{\beta}}{\ensuremath{\nu}}$ exponent, while ZE{Z}_{E}ZE​ involves $\frac{1}{\ensuremath{\nu}}$, and therefore, it is not surprising that ZM{Z}_{M}ZM​ is closer to the high-temperature expansion results, since $\frac{\ensuremath{\beta}}{\ensuremath{\nu}}$ in the Migdal approximation for statics is much closer to the exact value than $\frac{1}{\ensuremath{\nu}}$. In one dimension we obtain ZM=ZE=2{Z}_{M}={Z}_{E}=2ZM​=ZE​=2, which is the exact result of Glauber.
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.
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The real-space dynamic renormalization group method developed in previous papers is applied to the kinetic Ising model defined on a square lattice. In particular we extend the formalism to the calculation of space- and time-dependent equilibrium averaged correlation functions. We find that conventional methods for implementing the real-space renormalization group via cumulant expansions in terms of the intercell coupling lead to correlation functions which decay algebraically in space at large distances in the disordered phase in qualitative disagreement with the known exponential decay. We indicate how one can develop new perturbation theory expansion methods which lead to the proper exponential decay at large distances and also lead to good quantitative results for other observable quantities like the magnetization, susceptibility, and single spin time autocorrelation function. As the result of a first-order calculation we obtain excellent results for the static critical exponents and a value of z=1.79z=1.79z=1.79 for the dynamic critical exponent. The critical exponents obtained from the correlation functions calculated using this method satisfy the proper static and dynamic scaling relations.
Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 51 No. 4 (1974) pp. 1257–1259 On the Derivation of the Dynamic Scaling Law by Means of Kadanoff’s Cell Analysis and Coarse Graining of Time Masao Suzuki Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 51 No. 6 (1974) pp. 1712–1730 Renormalization Group Theory of Dynamic Critical Phenomena Yoshiki Kuramoto Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 52 No. 2 (1974) pp. 722–725 Perturbational Renormalization Group Approach to Critical Dynamics in Stochastic Models Masuo Suzuki and Fumihiko Tanaka Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 52 No. 3 (1974) pp. 871–885 Critical Relaxation of a Non-Linear Fokker-Planck Equation Hideo Yahata Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 53 No. 1 (1975) pp. 97–110 On the Critical Dynamics in Bose Systems and the Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Model Masuo Suzuki Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 58 No. 4 (1977) pp. 1142–1150 Static and Dynamic Finite-Size Scaling Theory Based on the Renormalization Group Approach Masuo Suzuki