We consider nonequilibrium critical dynamics of the two-dimensional Ising model for which the initial state is prepared by switching on random fields with zero mean and variance H . In the initial state there is no magnetic order but the clusters of parallel spins have a percolation transition for small enough H . Using heat-bath dynamics we measure the relaxation of the magnetization which shows a re-entrance in time. Due to cluster dissolution in the early time regime there is a decrease of the magnetization, followed by an increase due to nonequilibrium domain growth which itself turns to a decrease due to equilibrium relaxation. The power law decay of the nonequilibrium autocorrelation function is not influenced by the percolation in the initial state.
We consider nonequilibrium critical dynamics of the two-dimensional Ising model for which the initial state is prepared by switching on random fields with zero mean and variance H . In the initial state there is no magnetic order but the clusters of parallel spins have a percolation transition for small enough H . Using heat-bath dynamics we measure the relaxation of the magnetization which shows a re-entrance in time. Due to cluster dissolution in the early time regime there is a decrease of the magnetization, followed by an increase due to nonequilibrium domain growth which itself turns to a decrease due to equilibrium relaxation. The power law decay of the nonequilibrium autocorrelation function is not influenced by the percolation in the initial state.
A particular type of nonequilibrium critical dynamics is discussed in this paper, in which the initial state is generated in the square lattice Ising model with random fields of zero mean and variance h. Thus we interpolate between the ordered (h = 0) and disordered (h → ∞) initial states. In particular we consider the square lattice Ising model in which for weak enough random fields the clusters of parallel spins are percolating in the initial state. We aim to study the effect of correlations in the initial state on the nonequilibrium dynamics, so we measure the nonequilibrium relaxation of the magnetization and the autocorrelation function. The relaxation of the magnetization, characterized by the initial slip exponent, θ, is not altered by the percolating nature of the initial state. However, the starting part of the magnetization curve is affected by a cluster dissolution effect leading to a reentrance in time.
We study numerically the nonequilibrium dynamical behavior of an Ising model with mixed two-spin and four-spin interactions after a sudden quench from the high-temperature phase to the first-order phase transition point. The autocorrelation function is shown to approach its limiting value, given by the magnetization in the ordered phase at the transition point, m c , through a stretched exponential decay. On the other hand relaxation of the magnetization starting with an uncorrelated initial state with magnetization, m i , approaches either m c , for m i > 0.5, or zero, for m i < 0.5. For small m i and for m i slightly larger than 0.5 the relaxation of the magnetization shows an asymptotic power law time dependence, thus from a nonequilibrium point of view the transition is continuous.
We present results of our numerical study of the critical dynamics of percolation observables for the two-dimensional Ising model. We consider the (Monte Carlo) short-time evolution of the system with small initial magnetization and heat-bath dynamics. We find qualitatively different dynamic behaviors for the magnetization M and for omega, the so-called strength of the percolating cluster, which is the order parameter of the percolation transition. More precisely, we obtain a (leading) exponential form for omega as a function of the Monte Carlo time t, to be compared with the power-law increase encountered for M at short times. Our results suggest that, although the descriptions in terms of magnetic or percolation order parameters may be equivalent in the equilibrium regime, greater care must be taken to interpret percolation observables at short times.
The universality class, even the order of the transition, of the two-dimensional Ising model depends on the range and the symmetry of the interactions (Onsager model, Baxter-Wu model, Turban model, etc.), but the critical temperature is generally the same due to self-duality. Here we consider a sudden change in the form of the interaction and study the nonequilibrium critical dynamical properties of the nearest-neighbor model. The relaxation of the magnetization and the decay of the autocorrelation function are found to display a power law behavior with characteristic exponents that depend on the universality class of the initial state.
We consider the critical short-time evolution of magnetic and droplet-percolation order parameters for the Ising model in two and three dimensions, through Monte Carlo simulations with the (local) heat-bath method. We find qualitatively different dynamic behaviors for the two types of order parameters. More precisely, we find that the percolation order parameter does not have a power-law behavior as encountered for the magnetization, but develops a scale (related to the relaxation time to equilibrium) in the Monte Carlo time. We argue that this difference is due to the difficulty in forming large clusters at the early stages of the evolution. Our results show that, although the descriptions in terms of magnetic and percolation order parameters may be equivalent in the equilibrium regime, greater care must be taken to interpret percolation observables at short times. In particular, this concerns the attempts to describe the dynamics of the deconfinement phase transition in QCD using cluster observables.
We show that an out-of-equilibrium percolation transition occurs after quenching ferromagnetic Ising-like systems across their magnetic first-order transitions. As a paradigmatic example, we consider a two-dimensional Ising system driven across its low-temperature first-order transition line by a quench of the magnetic field h from hi<0 to h>0. In the thermodynamic limit and for finite values of h, the post-quench evolution under a purely relaxational dynamics is characterized by a dynamic transition at a finite critical time tc(h) from the metastable negatively magnetized phase to the positive one, marked by the percolation of the largest clusters of positive and negative spins. This out-of-equilibrium percolation transition displays a finite-size scaling behavior as in the standard random-percolation case. However, while the fractal dimension of the percolating clusters is consistent with the random-percolation value, the exponent controlling the approach to criticality differs and depends on h. We also show that the percolation critical behavior is related to the spinodal-like behavior of the magnetization in the small-h limit, which implies that the percolation time tc(h) exhibits a spinodal-like exponential dependence on h.