ABSTRACT
The time-dependent scaling of the thermoremanent and zero-field-cooled susceptibilities in ferromagnetic spin systems undergoing aging after a quench to a temperature at or below criticality is studied. A recent debate on their interpretation is resolved by showing that for systems with a short-ranged equilibrium spin-spin correlator and above their roughening temperature, the field-cooled susceptibility chi(FC)(t)-chi(0) approximately t(-A), where chi(0) is related to the equilibrium magnetization and the exponent A is related to the time-dependent scaling of the interface width between ordered domains. The same effect also dominates the scaling of the zero-field-cooled susceptibility chi(ZFC)(t,s), but does not enter into the thermoremanent susceptibility rho(TRM)(t,s). However, there may be large finite-time corrections to the scaling of rho(TRM)(t,s) which are explicitly derived and may be needed in order to extract reliable aging exponents. Consistency with the predictions of local scale invariance is confirmed in the Glauber-Ising and spherical models.
ABSTRACT
The scaling of the viscosity of polymer melts is investigated with regard to the molecular weight. We present a generalization of the Rubinstein-Duke model, which takes constraint releases into account and calculates the effects on the viscosity by the use of the density matrix renormalization group algorithm. Using input from Rouse theory, the rates for the constraint releases are determined in a self-consistent way. We conclude that shape fluctuations of the tube caused by constraint release are not a likely candidate for improving Doi's crossover theory for the scaling of the polymer viscosity.
