Off-equilibrium relaxational dynamics with improved Ising Hamiltonian

Understand

We study the off-equilibrium relaxational dynamics at criticality in the three-dimensional Blume-Capel model whose static critical behaviour belongs to the 3d-Ising universality class.

• Using "improved" Hamiltonian (the leading corrections to scaling have vanishing amplitude) we perform Monte Carlo simulations of the relaxational dynamics after a quench from $T=\infty$ to $T_c$.
• Analysing the off-equilibrium dynamics at $T_c$ we obtain an estimate of the dynamical critical exponent $z=2.020(8)$ that is perfectly consistent with the Field Theory predictions.