Abstract
It is the conventional wisdom that the correlation length for the XY model with linear damping should asymptotically grow diffusively as the square root of time after a quench into the ordered phase. This implies that the defect density ρ should decay with time as ρ∝ with the scaling exponent ν=1. We present evidence, by numerically integrating the equations of motion for a two-dimensional XY model, for a logarithmic correction to this scaling which makes it difficult to reach the asymptotic regime ν=-d(lnρ)/d(lnt)=1. Even after the defect density has decayed by three orders of magnitude ν=0.91, which still deviates by 10% from the asymptotic value.
- Received 20 October 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.47.1525
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