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Progress of Theoretical Physics

Dynamics of Critical Fluctuations. II

Kyozi Kawasaki

Published Jul 1, 1968• 42 citations
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Abstract

The dynamical theory of critical fluctuations put forward in a previous work is rephrased and extended so as to be applicable below the transition points as well. The theory is illustrated for the isotropic Heisenberg spin systems where the critical dynamical variables can be chosen in such a way as to reproduce the correct characteristic times governing the dynamics of critical fluctuations which were obtained by the dynamical scaling laws. In this connection the general forms of various equal time correlations of long wave length fluctuations have been obtained with the help of the scaling law equation of state. The theory is useful as a starting point for devising approximate schemes of evaluating time correlation functions of physical quantities of our interest, where at least the correct scaling properties of the characteristic times of the problem are retained. This is illustrated by deriving a new self-consistent equation for the time-displaced spin auto-correlation function, and the truncated moments for describing the part of the spectral line shape that is associated with critical fluctuations are introduced and discussed.

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10.1143/ptp.40.11

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The dynamical theory of critical fluctuations put forward in a previous work is rephrased and extended so as to be applicable below the transition points as well. The theory is illustrated for the isotropic Heisenberg spin systems where the critical dynamical variables can be chosen in such a way as to reproduce the correct characteristic times governing the dynamics of critical fluctuations which were obtained by the dynamical scaling laws. In this connection the general forms of various equal time correlations of long wave length fluctuations have been obtained with the help of the scaling law equation of state. The theory is useful as a starting point for devising approximate schemes of evaluating time correlation functions of physical quantities of our interest, where at least the correct scaling properties of the characteristic times of the problem are retained. This is illustrated by deriving a new self-consistent equation for the time-displaced spin auto-correlation function, and the truncated moments for describing the part of the spectral line shape that is associated with critical fluctuations are introduced and discussed.
The dynamics of critical fluctuations is treated theoretically by extending the usual macroscopic dynamical variables to include all other dynamical variables that could exhibit the critical slowing-down. The equations of motion for these generalized macroscopic dynamical variables are derived with the help of Mori's general theory of Brownian motion, which involve the “first moment frequency matrix” Ωq and the microscopic damping for these new dynamical variables, where q is the wave vector characterizing macroscopic inhomogeneity. The latter involves only the dynamical variables that perform rapid random motions and is disregarded, or is disposed of by means of a dimensional argument. Then the dynamics of critical fluctuations is completely governed by Ωq which is expressed in terms of equaltime correlations of long wave-length fluctuations only and allows the analysis with the help of the Widom-Kadanoff static scaling laws. The theory is applied to the problem of anomalous spin relaxations in ferro and antiferromagnets in the paramagnetic region, and the inverse characteristic times near the transition points are found to behave asymptotically as κ(5-η)/2f(q/κ) and κ3/2f(q/κ), respectively, where κ is the inverse correlation range of spin fluctuations and η the parameter measuring the deviation of spin pair correlation from the Ornstein-Zernike form. Finally a close analogy is pointed out between the present treatment of critical fluctuations are the theory of hydrodynamic turbulence.
The nature of our approach to the dynamics of critical fluctuations initiated in earlier works of this series is studied by applying it to the kinetic Ising model and anisotropic Heisenberg ferromagnets, and by including the Hamiltonian density in constructing the critical dynamical variables (CDV). In the isotropic Heisenberg magnets as well as in the anisotropic Heisenberg ferromagnets where the transverse components of spins first become critical (Matsubara-Matsuda model), the dynamics of the CDV can be asymptotically closed within themselves (that is, the energy transfer among the CDV modes dominates that between the CDV modes and other microscopic modes) if the CDV is constructed from spin densities alone. The dynamical scaling law (DSL) then holds among phenomena associated with the spin densities. For other cases studied, the dynamics cannot be closed within the chosen CDV, and then the DSL may fail among the phenomena associated with the CDV. A tentative criterion is given for the CDV where the DSL holds. In particular, the characteristic frequency in the Matsubara-Matsuda model behaves as κ3/2f with κ the inverse correlation range of spin fluctuations, which agrees with that found for the liquid helium near the λ transition by Ferrell et al. using the DSL. However, the thermal conductivities of the magnetic systems studied remain finite at the critical points. Various equal-time correlations that involve certain short wave length spin fluctuations are studied in Appendices.
Dynamical behaviors of magnetic systems near the critical points in the nonhydrodynamical regime are considered. For this purpose we construct a kinetic equation to describe the time evolution of critical fluctuations that corresponds in a sense to the Boltzmann equation of dilute gases. A graphical technique is developed to deduce the self-consistent equation for time-correlation functions of critical fluctuations from this kinetic equation, and the properties of the time-correlation functions of spin fluctuations for the Heisenberg isotropic and planar ferro- and isotropic antiferromagnets are discussed. The results are then applied to the high-frequency sound attenuation in magnetic systems.
Abstract Time evolution, near a phase transition in the critical domain of critical systems not far from equilibrium, using a Langevin-type evolution is studied. Typical quantities of interest are relaxation rates towards equilibrium, time-dependent correlation functions and transport coefficients. The main motivation for such a study is that, in systems in which the dynamics is local (on short time-scales, a modification of a dynamic variable has an influence only locally in space) when the correlation length becomes large, a large time-scale emerges, which characterizes the rate of time evolution. This phenomenon called critical slowing down leads to universal behaviour and scaling laws for time-dependent quantities. In contrast with the situation in static critical phenomena, there is no clean and systematic derivation of the dynamical equations governing the time evolution in the critical domain, because often the time evolution is influenced by conservation laws involving the order parameter, or other variables like energy, momentum, angular momentum, currents and so on. Indeed, the equilibrium distribution does not determine the driving force in the Langevin equation, but only the dissipative couplings are generated by the derivative of the equilibrium Hamiltonian, and directly related to the static properties. The purely dissipative Langevin equation specifically discussed, corresponding to static models like the f4 field theory and two-dimensional models. Renormalization group (RG) equations are derived, and dynamical scaling relations established.
We study a model equation of motion describing the dynamics of isotropic antiferromagnets near the critical point. We perform a renormalization-group analysis of this equation of motion correct to $O(\ensuremath{\epsilon})$, where $\ensuremath{\epsilon}=4\ensuremath{-}d$, finding recursion relations and analyzing their fixed points and their stability. For the one stable fixed point we obtain the dynamical index $z=\frac{d}{2}=2\ensuremath{-}\frac{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}{2}$. We also calculate the response and correlation functions in the scaling region using perturbation theory correct to $O(\ensuremath{\epsilon})$. Our calculation gives analytical forms for the correlation functions for the staggered magnetization and the magnetization. These correlation functions can be written in the dynamical scaling form. The shape function that characterizes the frequency spectrum for the staggered magnetization is Lorentzian in the hydrodynamical regime, but shows fluctuation induced peaks at and near the N\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}eel temperature. The shape function for the magnetization is essentially Lorentzian for all $x=q\ensuremath{\xi}$ (where qqq is the wave number and $\ensuremath{\xi}$ is the correlation length) and shows a narrow lydrodynamical width as $x\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$.