Critical Relaxation of Three-Dimensional Kinetic Ising Model

Abstract

We report a Monte Carlo study on the critical relaxation of the three-dimensional kinetic Ising model from a nonequilibrium initial state. It is shown that the details of the method, namely, a choice of the sampling procedure and a functional form of the transition probability do not affect an asymptotic power-law relaxation. The finite-size effects on the critical relaxation is also studied. Cross-over from the power-law relaxation to the exponential one is found, which is discussed in view of the dynamical finite-size scaling theory.