Relaxation in kinetic models on alternating linear chains

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 Feb;63(2 Pt 2):026114. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.026114. Epub 2001 Jan 25.

Abstract

A restricted dynamics, previously introduced in a kinetic model for relaxation phenomena in linear polymer chains, is used to study the dynamic critical exponent of one-dimensional Ising models. Both an alternating isotopic chain and an alternating-bond chain are considered. In contrast with what occurs for Glauber dynamics, in these two models the dynamic critical exponent turns out to be the same. The alternating isotopic chain with the restricted dynamics is shown to lead to Nagel scaling for temperatures above some critical value. Further support is given relating the Nagel scaling to the existence of multiple (simultaneous) relaxation processes, the dynamics apparently not playing the most important role in determining such scaling.