Anomalous Ising freezing times
Statistical Mechanics
2020-10-26 v3
Abstract
We measure the relaxation time of a square lattice Ising ferromagnet that is quenched to zero-temperature from supercritical initial conditions. We reveal an anomalous and seemingly overlooked timescale associated with the relaxation to "frozen" two-stripe states. While close to a power law of the form , we argue this timescale actually grows as , with L the linear dimension of the system. We uncover the mechanism behind this scaling form by using a synthetic initial condition that replicates the late time ordering of two-stripe states, and subsequently explain it heuristically.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2001.11774,
title = {Anomalous Ising freezing times},
author = {James Denholm and Ben Hourahine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11774},
year = {2020}
}