New Nonequilibrium-to-Equilibrium Dynamical Scaling and Stretched-Exponential Critical Relaxation in Cluster Algorithms

Abstract

Nonequilibrium relaxation behaviors in the Ising model on a square lattice based on the Wolff algorithm are totally different from those based on local-update algorithms. In particular, the critical relaxation is described by the stretched-exponential decay. We propose a novel scaling procedure to connect nonequilibrium and equilibrium behaviors continuously, and find that the stretched-exponential scaling region in the Wolff algorithm is as wide as the power-law scaling region in local-update algorithms. We also find that relaxation to the spontaneous magnetization in the ordered phase is characterized by the exponential decay, not the stretched-exponential decay based on local-update algorithms.