Non-equilibrium critical dynamics in disordered ferromagnets

Short-time dynamics and critical behavior of the three-dimensional site-diluted Ising model

Monte Carlo simulations of the short-time dynamic behavior are reported for three-dimensional weakly site-diluted Ising model with spin concentrations p=0.95 and 0.8 at criticality. In contrast to studies of the critical behavior of the pure systems by the short-time dynamics method, our investigations of site-diluted Ising model have revealed three stages of the dynamic evolution characterizing a crossover phenomenon from the critical behavior typical for the pure systems to behavior determined by the influence of disorder. The static and dynamic critical exponents are determined with the use of the corrections to scaling for systems starting separately from ordered and disordered initial states. The obtained values of the exponents demonstrate a universal behavior of weakly site-diluted Ising model in the critical region. The values of the exponents are compared to results of numerical simulations which have been obtained in various works and, also, with results of the renormalization-group description of this model.

Superaging in two-dimensional random ferromagnets

We study the aging properties, in particular the two-time autocorrelations, of the two-dimensional randomly diluted Ising ferromagnet below the critical temperature via Monte Carlo simulations. We find that the autocorrelation function displays additive aging C(t,t{w})=C{st}(t)+C{ag}(t,t{w}), where the stationary part Cst} decays algebraically. The aging part shows anomalous scaling C{ag}(t,t{w})=C[h(t)h(t{w})], where h(u) is a nonhomogeneous function excluding a t/t{w} scaling.