Universality in short-time critical gluodynamics with heat-bath-inspired algorithms

Abstract

Short-time dynamics technique is used to study the relaxation process for the (2+1)-dimensional critical gluodynamics of the SU(2) lattice gauge theory. A generalized class of heat-bath-inspired updating algorithms was employed during the short-time regime of the dynamic evolution for performance comparison. The static and dynamic critical exponents of the theory were measured, serving as a dynamic benchmark for algorithmic efficiency. Our results are in agreement with predictions from universality hypothesis and suggest that there is an underlying universal dynamics shared by the analyzed algorithms.

Comments: 11 pages, 6 eps figures. To appear in Comp. Phys. Comm.