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Annealing Dynamics of the Two-Dimensional Fully Frustrated Ising Model

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We study the dynamical scaling properties of the two-dimensional fully frustrated Ising model by simulated annealing. The model has a highly degenerate, critical ground state with well known equilibrium properties. To study its out-of-equilibrium behavior, we develop an annealing protocol that is convenient for extending the Kibble-Zurek mechanism to the case of an exponentially divergent correlation length in the limit of the temperature $T \to T_c = 0$. We find excellent agreement with the scaling forms derived, including a dependence on the initial temperature that is not present in the conventional Kibble-Zurek mechanism. The dynamic exponent $z$ is consistent among all quantities studied; fits of its dependence on the initial temperature give $z = 1.99(2)$ (susceptibility), $z = 2.072(8)$ (excess energy), and $z = 2.09(3)$ (Edwards-Anderson order parameter). These values are close to $z=2$, which is consistent with previous studies of relaxation after instantaneous quenches and of time dependent correlations in equilibrium, including the estimate $z = 2.004(9)$ from equilibrium autocorrelation functions.

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Kai-Hsin Wu, Anders W. Sandvik, Ying-Jer Kao. 2026-10-18. Annealing Dynamics of the Two-Dimensional Fully Frustrated Ising Model. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.25109

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