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Kibble-Zurek Dynamics in the Anisotropic Ising Model of the Si(001) Surface
G Schaller1, F Queisser1, S P Katoorani1
1Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany.
Abstract:
As a simplified description of the nonequilibrium dynamics of buckled dimers on the Si(001) surface, we consider the anisotropic two-dimensional (2D) Ising model and study the freezing of spatial correlations during a cooling quench across the critical point. Depending on the cooling rate, we observe a crossover from one-dimensional (1D) to 2D behavior. For rapid cooling, we find effectively 1D behavior in the strongly coupled direction, for which we provide an exact analytic solution of the nonequilibrium dynamics. For slower cooling rates, we start to see 2D behavior where our numerical simulations show an approach to the usual Kibble-Zurek scaling in 2D.
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