Aging in the three-dimensional random-field Ising model

Phys Rev E. 2017 Jul;96(1-1):013315. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.013315. Epub 2017 Jul 24.

Abstract

We studied the nonequilibrium aging behavior of the random-field Ising model in three dimensions for various values of the disorder strength. This allowed us to investigate how the aging behavior changes across the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition. We investigated a large system size of N=256^{3} spins and up to 10^{8} Monte Carlo sweeps. To reach these necessary long simulation times, we employed an implementation running on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, reaching single-spin-flip times as short as 6 ps. We measured typical correlation functions in space and time to extract a growing length scale and corresponding exponents.