Super slowing down in the bond-diluted Ising model.

Abstract

In models in statistical physics, the dynamics often slows down tremendously near the critical point. Usually, the correlation time τ at the critical point increases with system size L in power-law fashion: τ∼L^{z}, which defines the critical dynamical exponent z. We show that this also holds for the two-dimensional bond-diluted Ising model in the regime p>p_{c}, where p is the parameter denoting the bond concentration, but with a dynamical critical exponent z(p) which shows a strong p dependence. Moreover, we show numerically that z(p), as obtained from the autocorrelation of the total magnetization, diverges when the percolation threshold p_{c}=1/2 is approached: z(p)-z(1)∼(p-p_{c})^{-2}. We refer to this observed extremely fast increase of the correlation time with size as super slowing down. Independent measurement data from the mean-square deviation of the total magnetization, which exhibits anomalous diffusion at the critical point, support this result.