arXiv:cond-mat/0412040 · Physical Review B
Nonequilibrium critical relaxation in the presence of extended defects
Andrei A. Fedorenko
Abstract
We study nonequilibrium critical relaxation properties of systems with quenched extended defects, correlated in ${\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}_{d}$ dimensions and randomly distributed in the remaining $d\ensuremath{-}{\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}_{d}$ dimensions. Using a field-theoretic renormalization-group approach, we find the scaling behavior of the nonequilibrium response and correlation functions and calculate the initial slip exponents $\ensuremath{\theta}$ and ${\ensuremath{\theta}}^{\ensuremath{'}},$ which describe the growth of correlations during the initial stage of the critical relaxation, in the two-loop approximation.