Multidimensional persistence behavior in an Ising system.
We consider a periodic Ising chain with nearest-neighbor and rth neighbor interaction and quench it from infinite temperature to zero temperature. The persistence probability P(t) , measured as the probability that a spin remains unflipped up to time t , is studied by computer simulation for suitable values of r . We observe that as time progresses, P(t) first decays as t(-0.22) (the first regime), then the P(t)-t curve has a small slope (in log-log scale) for some time (the second regime) and at last it decays nearly as t(-3/8) (the third regime). We argue that in the first regime, the persistence behavior is the usual one for a two-dimensional system, in the second regime it is like that of a noninteracting ("zero-dimensional") system, and in the third regime the persistence behavior is like that of a one-dimensional Ising model. We also provide explanations for such behavior.
Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, 92 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Calcutta 700009, India.
Anjan Kumar
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Chandra
Subinay
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Dasgupta