The kinetics of a phase transition has been studied by using a new dynamical Monte Carlo renormalization group method. Using a majority rule block-spin transformation in both space and contiguous times, we numerically renormalized the evolving configurations during the phase separation of a kinetic Ising model with spin-flip dynamics. We find that, in the scaling regime, the average domain size R(t) grows in time consistently with the $R sim t sp{1/2}$ Allen-Cahn antiphase boundary motion theory, although some correcting factors may exist. The same procedure has also been applied to the corresponding equilibrium critical system in order to find the critical exponent z. Our method yields values that are consistent with the ones obtained from a finite-size scaling analysis applied on the same data, thus showing that, in principle, this method can be successfully used to determine z in a more precise and consistent way.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.60062 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | Lacasse, Martin Daniel |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001236628, proquestno: AAIMM67788, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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