Critical Dynamics
Critical phenomena may also appear for dynamic quantities, not only for static ones. In fact, the divergence of the characteristic time of a system is directly related to the divergence of the thermal correlation length by the introduction of a dynamical exponent z and the relation . The voluminous static universality class of a system splits into different, less voluminous dynamic universality classes with different values of z but a common static critical behaviour, and by approaching the critical point one may observe all kinds of slowing-down phenomena.
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