Out-of-equilibrium scaling of the energy density along the critical relaxational flow after a quench of the temperature (2024)

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Out-of-equilibrium scaling of the energy density along the critical relaxational flow after a quench of the temperature

Haralambos Panagopoulos and Ettore Vicari
Phys. Rev. E 109, 064107 – Published 3 June 2024
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We study the out-of-equilibrium behavior of statistical systems along critical relaxational flows arising from instantaneous quenches of the temperature T to the critical point Tc, starting from equilibrium conditions at time t=0. In the case of soft quenches, i.e., when the initial temperature T is assumed sufficiently close to Tc (to keep the system within the critical regime), the critical modes develop an out-of-equilibrium finite-size-scaling (FSS) behavior in terms of the rescaled time variable Θ=t/Lz, where t is the time interval after quenching, L is the size of the system, and z is the dynamic exponent associated with the dynamics. However, the realization of this picture is less clear when considering the energy density, whose equilibrium scaling behavior (corresponding to the starting point of the relaxational flow) is generally dominated by a temperature-dependent regular background term or mixing with the identity operator. These issues are investigated by numerical analyses within the three-dimensional lattice N-vector models, for N=3 and 4, which provide examples of critical behaviors with negative values of the specific-heat critical exponent α, implying that also the critical behavior of the specific heat gets hidden by the background term. The results show that, after subtraction of its asymptotic critical value at Tc, the energy density develops an asymptotic out-of-equilibrium FSS in terms of Θ as well, whose scaling function appears singular in the small-Θ limit.

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  • Received 20 March 2024
  • Accepted 9 May 2024

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.064107

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  1. Physical Systems

Lattice models in statistical physics

  1. Techniques

Finite-size scalingScaling methods

Statistical Physics & ThermodynamicsParticles & FieldsCondensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

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Haralambos Panagopoulos1 and Ettore Vicari2

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  • Out-of-equilibrium scaling of the energy density along the critical relaxational flow after a quench of the temperature (11)

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    The ratio Rξ/L along the critical relaxational flow vs Θt/Lz for N=4, at fixed Υ=0.2 (bottom) and Υ=0.4 (top). The statistical errors are very small, and practically invisible in the plots. The insets show the large-L convergence for some fixed values of Θ, plotting the corresponding data vs Lω, which is the expected behavior of the scaling corrections.

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    The ratio Rξ/L along the critical relaxational flow vs Θt/Lz for N=3, at fixed Υ=0.2 (bottom) and Υ=0.1 (top). The inset of the bottom figureshows the large-L convergence for some fixed values of Θ vs their expected leading O(Lω) suppression. The inset of the top figureshows the data up to a relatively large value Θ=1, for lattice sizes up to L=24, demonstrating the large-time convergence to the corresponding equilibrium value at the critical point, which, in turn, converges to the critical value [55] R*=0.56404(2) in the large-L limit (indicated by the dashed line).

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    Out-of-equilibrium FSS of the subtracted energy density Es along the critical relaxational flow for N=4, at fixed Υ=0.2 (bottom) and Υ=0.4 (top). The insets show the large-L convergence for some fixed values of Θ, indicating that the scaling corrections are small, and consistent with O(Lω). The statistical errors are very small, and practically invisible in the plots. Note that the data at t=0 do not scale; see Fig.5.

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    Out-of-equilibrium FSS of the N=3 subtracted energy density Es along the critical relaxational flow, at fixed Υ=0.2 (bottom) and Υ=0.1 (top). The inset of the bottom figureshows the large-L convergence for some fixed values of Θ. The inset of the top figureshows the data up to a relatively large value of Θ, i.e., Θ=1, at fixed Υ=0.1 and for lattice sizes up to L=24, demonstrating the large time convergence to the corresponding equilibrium value at the critical point. Note that the data at t=0 do not scale, like the N=4 cases.

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    The subtracted energy Es at t=0 for N=4 and some values of Υ (the errors of the data are practically invisible in the plot). To make evident the expected equilibrium behavior reported in Eqs.(16) and (17), we plot LyrEs(t=0) vs Lα/ν with α/ν=2/νd0.19, which is the relative power law of the scaling term with respect to the background contribution at equilibrium. The data show the behavior reported in Eq.(29). The lines show linear fits of the data for the larger lattices, which have acceptable χ2. We stress that this scaling behavior does not match that observed at fixed Θ>0. Analogous power-law behaviors are observed for N=3.

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    Log-log plot of data of the subtracted energy density, highlighting the behavior at small Θ, for N=3 (top) and N=4 (bottom), at Υ=0.2. The dashed lines show linear fits of the data of LdyrEs at small Θ, i.e., Θ0.002, to the asymptotic Θ0 behavior AΘκ+B with κ=α/(zν). Analogous results are obtained for other values of Υ, such as Υ=0.4 for N=4 and Υ=0.1 for N=3.

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