title: Short-time dynamics for the spin-3/2 Blume-Capel model.
abstract: We employed Monte Carlo simulations and short-time dynamic scaling to determine the static and dynamic critical exponents for the generalized two-dimensional Blume-Capel model of spin-3/2. We showed that the critical behavior at the second-order phase-transition line between the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases is in the same universality class of the two-dimensional Ising model. However, at the double critical end point, which is present in the phase diagram of the model, the critical exponent beta , associated to the order parameter, is different from that of the Ising model.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 88040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
authors.forename: B C S
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Grandi
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Figueiredo