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Physical understanding of how the interplay between symmetries and nonlinear effects can control the scaling and multiscaling properties in a coupled driven system, such as magnetohydrodynamic turbulence or turbulent binary fluid mixtures, remains elusive till the date. To address this generic issue, we construct a conceptual nonlinear hydrodynamic model, parametrised jointly by the nonlinear coefficients, and the spatial scaling of the variances of the advecting stochastic velocity and the stochastic additive driving force, respectively. By using a perturbative one-loop dynamic renormalisation group method, we calculate the multiscaling exponents of the suitably defined equal-time structure functions of the dynamical variable. We show that depending upon the control parameters the model can display a variety of universal scaling behaviours ranging from simple scaling to multiscaling.
Kinetic facilitated models and the Mode Coupling Theory (MCT) model B are within those systems known to exhibit a discontinuous dynamical transition with a two step relaxation. We consider a general scaling approach, within mean field theory, for such systems by considering the behavior of the density correlator <q(t)> and the dynamical susceptibility <q^2(t)> -<q(t)>^2. Focusing on the Fredrickson and Andersen (FA) facilitated spin model on the Bethe lattice, we extend a cluster approach that was previously developed for continuous glass transitions by Arenzon et al (Phys. Rev. E 90, 020301(R) (2014)) to describe the decay to the plateau, and consider a damage spreading mechanism to describe the departure from the plateau. We predict scaling laws, which relate dynamical exponents to the static exponents of mean field bootstrap percolation. The dynamical behavior and the scaling laws for both density correlator and dynamical susceptibility coincide with those predicted by MCT. These results explain the origin of scaling laws and the universal behavior associated with the glass transition in mean field, which is characterized by the divergence of the static length of the bootstrap percolation model with an upper critical dimension d_c=8.
We study the stochastic dynamics of infinitely many globally interacting $q$-state units on a ring that is externally driven. While repulsive interactions always lead to uniform occupations, attractive interactions give rise to much richer phenomena: We analytically characterize a Hopf bifurcation which separates a high-temperature regime of uniform occupations from a low-temperature one where all units coalesce into a single state. For odd $q$ below the critical temperature starts a synchronization regime which ends via a second phase transition at lower temperatures, while for even $q$ this intermediate phase disappears. We find that interactions have no effects except below critical temperature for attractive interactions. A thermodynamic analysis reveals that the dissipated work is reduced in this regime, whose temperature range is shown to decrease as $q$ increases. The $q$-dependence of the power-efficiency trade-off is also analyzed.
Low frequency perturbations at the boundary of critical quantum chains can be understood in terms of the sequence of boundary conditions imposed by them, as has been previously demonstrated in the Ising and related fermion models. Using extensive numerical simulations, we explore the scaling behavior of the Loschmidt echo under longitudinal field perturbations at the boundary of a critical $mathbb{Z}_3$ Potts model. We show that at times much larger than the relaxation time after a boundary quench, the Loschmidt-echo has a power-law scaling as expected from interpreting the quench as insertion of boundary condition changing operators. Similar scaling is observed as a function of time-period under a low frequency square-wave pulse. We present numerical evidence which indicate that under a sinusoidal or triangular pulse, scaling with time period is modified by Kibble-Zurek effect, again similar to the case of the Ising model. Results confirm the validity, beyond the Ising model, of the treatment of the boundary perturbations in terms of the effect on boundary conditions.
We present theoretical arguments and simulation data indicating that the scaling of earthquake events in models of faults with long-range stress transfer is composed of at least three distinct regions. These regions correspond to three classes of earthquakes with different underlying physical mechanisms. In addition to the events that exhibit scaling, there are larger ``breakout events that are not on the scaling plot. We discuss the interpretation of these events as fluctuations in the vicinity of a spinodal critical point.
Recently, it has been proposed that the adsorption transition for a single polymer in dilute solution, modeled by lattice walks in three dimensions, is not universal with respect to inter-monomer interactions. It has also been conjectured that key critical exponents $phi$, measuring the growth of the contacts with the surface at the adsorption point, and $1/delta$, which measures the finite-size shift of the critical temperature, are not the same. However, applying standard scaling arguments the two key critical exponents should be identical, thus pointing to a potential breakdown of these standard scaling arguments. This is in contrast to the well studied situation in two dimensions, where there are exact results from conformal field theory: these exponents are both accepted to be $1/2$ and universal. We use the flatPERM algorithm to simulate self-avoiding walks and trails on the hexagonal, square and simple cubic lattices up to length $1024$ to investigate these claims. Walks can be seen as a repulsive limit of inter-monomer interaction for trails, allowing us to probe the universality of adsorption. For each model we analyze several thermodynamic properties to produce different methods of estimating the critical temperature and the key exponents. We test our methodology on the two-dimensional cases and the resulting spread in values for $phi$ and $1/delta$ indicates that there is a systematic error that exceeds the statistical error usually reported. We further suggest a methodology for consistent estimation of the key adsorption exponents which gives $phi=1/delta=0.484(4)$ in three dimensions. We conclude that in three dimensions these critical exponents indeed differ from the mean-field value of $1/2$, but cannot find evidence that they differ from each other. Importantly, we also find no substantive evidence of any non-universality in the polymer adsorption transition.