Nonequilibrium critical relaxation at a first-order phase transition point

Details Nonequilibrium critical relaxation at a first-order phase transition point Nonequilibrium critical relaxation at a first-order phase transition point

2007-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/0705.2142v2

Europhys. Lett. 79, 56002 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 3 figures, version to appear in Europhysics Letters

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/79/56002

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.

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