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Progress of Theoretical Physics

Dynamical Nature of the Phase Transition of the Two-Dimensional Kinetic Ising Model

Seiji Miyashita, Hiroshi Takano

Published May 1, 1985• 65 citations
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Abstract

We study dynamic properties of the critical phenomena of the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model above and below the critical temperature Tc. In particular, we study the critical slowing-down (T > Tc) and the symmetry breaking (T ≪ Tc) through the temperature- and size-dependences of relaxation time of magnetization and we compare the dependences with those of static quantities such as the susceptibility. We find intrinsic dynamical critical behaviour on both sides of Tc with a critical region as wide as the one in the static critical behaviour. We also discuss the dynamic properties as an eigenvalue problem of the time-evolution operator (the Liouville operator) and thier scaling properties.

DOI
10.1143/ptp.73.1122

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