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Universal Driven Critical Dynamics near the Boundary

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Pith's one-line read For cooling through an ordinary boundary transition, the boundary order parameter depends on the driving rate logarithmically rather than as the power law expected from the Kibble-Zurek mechanism.

desk verdict A genuinely new but under-supported anomaly: boundary FTS works for many protocols, but the log law for ordinary-transition cooling is not yet established beyond a two-parameter fit. read the letter →

arxiv 2509.10049 v1 pith:S6GCAP63 submitted 2025-09-12 cond-mat.stat-mech

classification cond-mat.stat-mech
keywords Kibble-Zurekmechanismfinite-timescalingboundarycriticalphenomenaordinarytransitionIsingmodellogarithmicsurfacedynamicsnonequilibrium
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The reading

The paper extends finite-time scaling — the modern generalization of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism — to boundary critical phenomena in the 2D and 3D Ising models. It shows that most driven boundary universality classes are described by the same power-law scaling as the bulk, with boundary exponents substituted in. The central exception is cooling through the ordinary transition, where the boundary order parameter shrinks as a logarithm of the cooling rate instead of a power law, revealing a striking heating/cooling asymmetry. The authors also treat the special transition driven by surface-coupling ramps, where the initial critical state invalidates the standard adiabatic-impulse picture and a new scaling form involving the waiting time, or 'age', of the boundary is required.

What carries the argument

Boundary finite-time scaling (BFTS): a set of scaling forms that generalize bulk finite-time scaling by replacing the bulk order-parameter exponent β with the boundary exponent β_1. The key variable is the driving-induced length scale ξ_d ∝ v^{-1/r} with r = z + 1/ν, which controls both the temperature dependence and spatial crossover through the scaling variable x v^{1/r}. For the ordinary transition, the BFTS form fails for cooling because the exponent combination 2β_1/ν − (d−1) is non-negative, so surface fluctuations prevent domain formation and the driving-rate dependence becomes logarithmic.

What would settle it

Measure the squared boundary order parameter at the bulk critical point for 2D and 3D Ising cooling from the disordered phase at large driving rates; if M_s1^2 L^{d-1} scales as a power of v rather than as log(b v), or if the data do not collapse according to Eq. (13), the claimed abnormal logarithmic scaling is refuted.

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Core claim

For cooling dynamics through an ordinary boundary transition, the squared boundary order parameter M_s1^2 obeys M_s1^2 = a L^{-(d-1)} log(b v) at the bulk critical point (Eq. 12), with a<0, b>0 constants. This is in contrast to the normal BFTS power-law form M_s1^2 ∝ L^{-(d-1)} v^{[2β_1/ν-(d-1)]/r} (Eq. 11), which fails for both 2D and 3D. The authors propose a generalized scaling form M_s1^2 = L^{-(d-1)}[a log(b v) + f_9(g v^{-1/(ν r)})] (Eq. 13) that collapses data away from the critical point. The breakdown is attributed to strong surface fluctuations that suppress formation of correlated domains at the boundary during cooling.

Load-bearing premise

The analysis assumes that boundary driving introduces no new dynamic critical exponent, so the bulk dynamic exponent z and the combination r = z + 1/ν fully determine the boundary scaling forms; if a separate surface relaxation time scale or a boundary-specific dynamic exponent exists, the predicted exponents and the log-vs-power-law discrimination would change.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For ordinary-boundary cooling, the squared boundary order parameter at the critical point is predicted to obey M_s1^2 = a L^{-(d-1)} log(b v), so experiments should look for a logarithmic, not power-law, dependence on the ramp rate.
  • The sign of 2β_1/ν − (d−1) becomes a diagnostic: negative values allow the normal power-law BFTS; non-negative values signal the abnormal logarithmic regime.
  • Heating and cooling are not symmetric at boundaries: heating obeys BFTS in all boundary universality classes, while cooling fails for the ordinary class, implying that separate scaling forms must be used for opposite ramp directions.
  • For surface-coupling ramps across the special transition, increasing the coupling from the ordinary line requires an initial 'age' (waiting time) t_a; the proposed scaling form Eq. (23) ties the boundary order to t_a^{-2β_1^o/(ν z)} and v^{2(β_1−β_1^o)/(ν r_J)}.
  • For the extraordinary transition, the ordered boundary enforces a power-law decay M_sx^2 ∝ x^{-2β/ν} into the bulk, and the full scaling form Eq. (24) holds with the driving dependence entering through v x^r.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The logarithmic law may be generic in any boundary universality class where 2β_1/ν ≥ d−1, so testing another model (e.g., the O(N) model with an ordinary boundary) would probe universality of the mechanism.
  • The waiting-time scaling for increasing surface coupling is reminiscent of aging phenomena; one could extend the formalism to other tricritical points where the initial state is critical along a different direction.
  • If suppression of boundary domain formation during cooling is the true cause, spatially resolved measurements of M_sx^2 should show a depth profile: bulk power-law behavior at large x crossing over to the log behavior near the surface, with a crossover scale set by x v^{1/r}.
  • The same driving-rate correction q(v) = v(1 + c v^{-ω/r}) used for the special transition could improve collapse in the ordinary cooling case, suggesting that higher-order scaling corrections may be present but do not change the leading log law.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper studies driven critical dynamics near boundaries of 2D and 3D Ising models under linear temperature sweeps, and for the special transition also under surface-coupling sweeps. The authors propose a boundary finite-time scaling (BFTS) framework in which the bulk FTS forms are generalized by replacing the bulk order-parameter exponent beta with the boundary exponent beta_1. For heating in the ordinary transition, this yields scaling collapses in 2D and 3D, including a crossover full scaling form. The central new claim is that for cooling in the ordinary transition the normal BFTS form (11) fails and the boundary order parameter obeys an anomalous logarithmic law, Eq. (12), M^2_s1 = a L^{-(d-1)} log(bv). For the surface and special transitions, BFTS is reported for both heating and cooling, and for the special transition a generalized BFTS for aged initial states is proposed. The extraordinary transition is treated only through heating data. The abstract and summary, however, assert that cooling in the extraordinary transition is also BFTS, which is not demonstrated in the text.

Significance. Understanding driven critical dynamics near boundaries is a natural and important extension of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, and this paper is the first systematic numerical exploration of it across ordinary, surface, special and extraordinary boundary classes. If the claimed logarithmic cooling law for the ordinary transition is correct, it would establish a qualitatively new boundary effect and imply that the standard FTS framework must be modified near boundaries. The paper makes productive use of published equilibrium boundary exponents and supports the ordinary/special/surface heating BFTS forms with data collapses over broad L and v ranges. The generalized BFTS for nonequilibrium initial states, Eq. (23), is also a useful conceptual addition. However, the paper contains no machine-checked proofs or code release; the main new quantitative claims rest entirely on numerical fits, and Eq. (12) is a falsifiable prediction that is not yet established by the evidence presented.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract; Sec. VII] The abstract and Sec. I state that cooling in the extraordinary transition is described by BFTS, but Sec. VII contains no cooling data: Fig. 15 and the text explicitly verify Eq. (24) only for heating (T0=Tb-2). The universal claim for ordinary/special/surface/extraordinary cooling is therefore unsupported for the extraordinary class. This is not merely presentational; the abstract's factual content is load-bearing. Either add cooling simulations (with a data collapse for M_s1^2 L^{d-1} vs vL^r) or restrict the claim to the cases actually simulated.
  2. [Eq. (12); Figs. 5(a1), 6(a1), 5(b2), 6(b2)] The central log law is established only by a two-parameter fit of M_s1^2 L^{-(d-1)} vs v at J_s=1 and T0=Tb+2. The fits are shown without statistical uncertainties or residuals, and no alternative forms (power law with small negative exponent, crossover to BFTS) are compared. Over roughly two decades a monotone function with slowly varying slope is consistent with several forms. The collapses in Figs. 5(b2)/6(b2) subtract exactly the fitted a log(bv) from the ordinate, so they do not independently validate the logarithmic form. In addition, the additive decomposition in Eq. (13) is assumed, not derived, and the constants a and b are not shown to be independent of J_s or of the initial temperature offset. At present Eq. (12) is an empirical curve, not a demonstrated universal scaling law.
  3. [Sec. II premise; Sec. VIII criterion] All BFTS forms rely on the premise that the bulk dynamic exponent z and r=z+1/nu determine boundary driven dynamics with no additional boundary time scale (Sec. II). This assumption is not tested. The criterion in Sec. VIII (2 beta_1/nu - (d-1) >= 0 for the abnormal log behavior) is a restatement of the sign of the power in Eq. (11) and does not by itself explain why a logarithm, rather than a power law with a different exponent, appears. A concrete check would be to measure the surface autocorrelation time directly, or to repeat the ordinary-cooling collapse with a free dynamic exponent and show that the bulk z gives a statistically acceptable collapse.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sec. VI.A.1] Below Eq. (16), two references to Eq. (14) should be Eq. (16). The caption of Fig. 10(a2) also labels the vertical axis as M^2_sL L^{2 beta/nu}; the boundary quantity considered is M^2_s1 L^{2 beta_1/nu}.
  2. [Fig. 11(a1) caption] The quoted exponent, 2 beta_1/nu r, is inconsistent with the plotted quantity M^2_s1 L^{d-1}; the expected exponent is [2 beta_1/nu - (d-1)]/r.
  3. [Sec. VI.B.1] The sentence after Eq. (22) says 'for increasing J', but the paragraph and Fig. 13 describe decreasing J_s. Please correct this slip.
  4. [Eqs. (19) and (23)] The label f15 is used for two different scaling functions; renumber one of them to avoid ambiguity. Eq. (22) also reuses f12 from Eq. (16).
  5. [Sec. IV.A, opening paragraph] The Mermin-Wagner sentence refers to 'continuous symmetry breaking' in an Ising context where the spin symmetry is discrete. Please clarify that the 1D boundary of the 2D Ising model does not order independently for continuous-symmetry reasons and that any symmetry argument is not the same as the existing boundary criticality analysis.

Circularity Check

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Logarithmic cooling law in ordinary transition is a two-parameter empirical fit; its 'confirmation' via Eq. (13) subtracts the same fitted form, so the central new claim is not independently validated.

  1. fitted input called prediction [Sec. IV B (Cooling dynamics), Eqs. (12)-(13), Figs. 5(a1), 5(b2), 6(a1), 6(b2)]
    "From Figs. 5(a1) and 6(a1), for large v, we find that the dependence of M^2_{sL}L^{(d-1)} on v satisfies a logarithmic function: M^2_{s1} ∝ aL^{-(d-1)} log(bv), (12) in which a and b are dimension-dependent constants ... After rescaling the data according to Eq. (13), the rescaled curves collapse well, confirming the validity of Eq. (13)."

    Eq. (13) is proposed immediately after a and b are fitted to M^2_{s1}L^{-(d-1)} vs v in Figs. 5(a1)/6(a1) (caption values a=-0.4539,b=0.0132 and a=-0.5026,b=0.0023). At g=0, Eq. (13) reduces to the fitted log law plus the constant f9(0); the collapse in Figs. 5(b2)/6(b2) is obtained by subtracting the very same fitted a log(bv) from the data. Hence the collapse does not independently confirm the logarithmic form; it is partly forced by the fit. No RG or microscopic derivation of the log is supplied, and no test of a,b under variation of J_s, initial offset, or alternative functional forms is reported, so the 'abnormal logarithmic scaling' is an empirical two-parameter fit presented as a discovered universal law.

full rationale

Most of the paper is self-contained and not circular: the BFTS forms for heating (Eqs. 8, 10, 16, 18, 22) and for cooling in surface, special, and extraordinary transitions (Eqs. 15, 19, 24) are tested by data collapse using exponents β, β1, ν, z taken from independent equilibrium literature. Those tests have substantive content and are not reduced to the paper's own inputs. The central anomalous claim, however, is Eq. (12): M^2_{s1} = a L^{-(d-1)} log(bv). This form is not derived from FTS or RG; it is read off the same simulation curves in Figs. 5(a1) and 6(a1), with a and b as fitted constants. The subsequent verification of Eq. (13) subtracts the fitted a log(bv) from the same observable, so the data collapse in Figs. 5(b2)/6(b2) cannot certify the logarithmic law independently. That is a partial circularity: a fitted input is presented as a discovered prediction, and its purported confirmation is partly by construction. The score is 6 rather than higher because the paper does contain substantial non-circular content (the BFTS framework and the special/surface/extraordinary collapses), and the log law, while weakly grounded, is at least a concrete empirical proposal that could be tested by future independent simulations. Self-citations appear (e.g., Refs. 25, 26, 32, 34, 104, 106) but are not load-bearing for the central ordinary-transition log claim; the issue is specifically the fit-to-validation overlap.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new particles or forces. The free parameters are fitting constants used to achieve data collapse and to parameterize the log law. The axioms are the standard FTS framework, the analogy-based substitution of boundary exponents, and the assumption that bulk dynamic exponents apply at boundaries. The ad hoc axioms are the log law and the waiting-time scaling form, both proposed from the data rather than derived.

free parameters (3)
  • a and b in log scaling M^2_s1 = a L^{-(d-1)} log(bv) = 2D: a = -0.4539, b = 0.0132; 3D: a = -0.5026, b = 0.0023
    Fitted to the large-v Monte Carlo data in Figs. 5(a1) and 6(a1). No theoretical prediction for their values or universality.
  • c and omega in finite-size correction y(L) = 1 + c L^{-omega} = 2D: c = -2.12, omega = 0.50; 3D: c = -3.39, omega = 0.50
    Used in Figs. 3(a2), 4(a2), 5(a2), 6(a2) to improve the data collapse. omega = 0.50 is chosen by hand, not derived; c is fitted to optimize collapse.
  • c and omega in driving-rate correction q(v) = v(1 + c v^{-omega/r}) = c = 0.05, omega = 1 (3D special transition)
    Introduced in Fig. 10(c2) and Fig. 11(c2) to collapse the crossover data for the special transition. Values are fitted to the data.
assumptions (5)
  • standard math Adiabatic-impulse scenario of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, with a driving-induced time scale zeta_d ~ v^{-z/r} and length scale xi_d ~ v^{-1/r}.
    Invoked in Sec. III as the foundation of FTS, following Refs. [19, 20, 25, 26].
  • ad hoc to paper Normal generalization of bulk FTS to the boundary: the boundary order parameter obeys the bulk FTS form with the bulk exponent beta replaced by the boundary exponent beta_1.
    Stated in Sec. IV A before Eq. (8): 'This analogy suggests that the dynamic scaling properties at the boundary may be obtained by a similar substitution.' This assumption is the basis for all BFTS forms and is not derived.
  • domain assumption No new dynamic critical exponent is needed for boundary driven dynamics; the bulk dynamic exponent z governs the boundary time scale.
    Stated in Sec. II: 'For driven critical dynamics, there is no additional divergence in the time direction, and thus no new critical exponents need to be introduced.' Used in every BFTS form, e.g., Eqs. (8), (11), (16).
  • ad hoc to paper The logarithmic scaling form (Eq. 12) is the correct asymptotic form for cooling in the ordinary transition.
    Proposed in Sec. IV B based on the numerical observation that M^2_s1 decreases with v and the argument that the normal BFTS form fails. No RG or analytical derivation is given.
  • ad hoc to paper Generalized BFTS scaling form (Eq. 23) combining ordinary and special critical exponents with the waiting time t_a.
    Assumed in Sec. VI B 2: 'Accordingly, we can assume the scaling form as ...' The form is motivated by memory of the initial critical state but is not derived from a renormalization-group analysis.

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The celebrated Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) describes the scaling of physical quantities when external parameters sweep through a critical point. Boundaries are ubiquitous in real systems, and critical behaviors near the boundary have attracted extensive research. Different boundary universality classes, including ordinary, special, extraordinary, and surface transitions, have been identified. However, the driven critical dynamics near boundaries remains unexplored. Here, we systematically investigate the driven critical dynamics in various boundary universality classes of the Ising model in both two and three dimensions, and discover a wealth of dynamic scaling behaviors. We find that for heating dynamics in all boundary universality classes, as well as for cooling dynamics in special, extraordinary, and surface transitions, the dynamic scaling behaviors of the order parameter can be described by a normal generalization of the KZM, called boundary finite-time scaling (BFTS). In contrast, for cooling dynamics in ordinary transition, we discover an abnormal logarithmic scaling on the driving rate. Moreover, for the special transition, in addition to temperature driving, we also consider the driven dynamics by driving the surface couplings. For increasing the surface coupling across the special transition point along the line of the ordinary transition, the prerequisite of the KZM, which requires that the correlation length/time in the initial state to be short-ranged, breaks down. We develop a generalized BFTS for a nonequilibrium initial state characterized by the waiting time, or the ``age'', of the boundary. Possible generalizations are also discussed.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. General phase diagram on the boundary of a system [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. Driven dynamics of the order parameter in the bulk [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Heating dynamics of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Heating dynamics in 3D ordinary transition at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Cooling dynamics in 2D ordinary transition at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Cooling dynamics in 3D ordinary transition at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Illustration of suppressed domain formation near the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9. Cooling dynamics in 3D surface transition at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10. Heating dynamics in 3D special transition at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11. Cooling dynamics in 3D special transition at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_11.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: FIG. 13. Driven dynamics in 3D special transition at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_13.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: FIG. 15. Heating dynamics in 3D extraordinary transition at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_15.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: FIG. 14. Driven dynamics in 3D special transition at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_14.png]

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