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The effects of violating detailed balance on critical dynamics

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We present an overview of the effects of detailed-balance violating perturbations on the universal static and dynamic scaling behavior near a critical point. It is demonstrated that the standard critical dynamics universality classes are generally quite robust: In systems with non-conserved order parameter, detailed balance is effectively restored at criticality. This also holds for models with conserved order parameter, and isotropic non-equilibrium perturbations. Genuinely novel features are found only for models with conserved order parameter and spatially anisotropic noise correlations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0109433,
  title  = {The effects of violating detailed balance on critical dynamics},
  author = {Uwe C. Tauber and Vamsi K. Akkineni and Jaime E. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0109433},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, revtex, no figures