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arXiv:cond-mat/0309307

Dynamical space-time symmetry for ageing far from equilibrium

Malte Henkel

Published Sep 12, 2003• 0 citations
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Abstract

The dynamical scaling of ageing ferromagnetic systems can be generalized to a local scale invariance. This yields a prediction for the causal two-time response function, which has been numerically confirmed in the Glauber-Ising model quenched into the ordered phase. For a dynamical exponent z=2, a new embedding of the Schrödinger group into the conformal group and the resulting conditions for the validity of local scale invariance are discussed.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0309307

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The phase-ordering kinetics of the ferromagnetic two-dimensional Ising model with uniform disorder is investigated by intensive Monte Carlo simulations. Taking into account finite-time corrections to scaling, simple ageing behaviour is observed in the two-time responses and correlators. The dynamical exponent z and the form of the scaling functions only depend on the ratio eps/T, where eps describes the width of the distribution of the disorder. The agreement of the predictions of local scale-invariance generalised to z<> 2 for the two-time scaling functions of response and correlations with the numerical data provides a direct test of generalised Galilei-invariance.
The generalization of dynamical scaling to local scale invariance is reviewed. Starting from a recapitulation of the phenomenology of ageing phenomena, the generalization of dynamical scaling to local scale transformation for any given dynamical exponent zzz is described and the two distinct types of local scale invariance are presented. The special case z=2z=2z=2 and the associated Ward identity of Schrödinger invariance is treated. Local scale invariance predicts the form of the two-point functions. Existing confirmations of these predictions for (I) the Lifshitz points in spin systems with competing interactions such as the ANNNI model and (II) non-equilibrium ageing phenomena as occur in the kinetic Ising model with Glauber dynamics are described.