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Fabrication of Spatially Confined Complex Oxides
Published on: July 1, 2013
Critical dynamics of a nonlocal model and critical behavior of perovskite manganites
Rohit Singh1, Kishore Dutta2, Malay K Nandy1
1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781 039, India.
Abstract:
We investigate the nonconserved critical dynamics of a nonlocal model Hamiltonian incorporating screened long-range interactions in the quartic term. Employing dynamic renormalization group analysis at one-loop order, we calculate the dynamic critical exponent z=2+εf_{1}(σ,κ,n)+O(ε^{2}) and the linewidth exponent w=-σ+εf_{2}(σ,κ,n)+O(ε^{2}) in the leading order of ε, where ε=4-d+2σ, with d the space dimension, n the number of components in the order parameter, and σ and κ the parameters coming from the nonlocal interaction term. The resulting values of linewidth exponent w for a wide range of σ is found to be in good agreement with the existing experimental estimates from spin relaxation measurements in perovskite manganite samples.
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