JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, vol.190, pp.1-13, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
We study the transient behavior of damage propagation in the two-dimensional spin-1 Blume–
Capel model using Monte Carlo simulations with Metropolis dynamics. We find that, for a
particular region in the second-order transition regime of the crystal field–temperature phase
diagram of the model, the average Hamming distance decreases exponentially with time in
the weakly damaged system. Additionally, its rate of decay appears to depend linearly on a
number of Hamiltonian parameters, namely the crystal field, temperature, applied magnetic
field, but also on the amount of damage. Finally, a comparative study using Metropolis and
Glauber dynamics indicates a slower decay rate of the average Hamming distance for the
Glauber protocol.