Numerical Study on Aging Dynamics in the 3d Ising Spin-glass Model — Quasi-equilibrium Behaviour of Spin Auto-correlation Functions

Using Monte Carlo simulations, we have studied aging phenomena in three-dimensional Gaussian Ising spin-glass model focusing on quasi-equilibrium behavior of the spin autocorrelation functions. Weak violation of the time translational invariance in the quasiequilibrium regime is analyzed in terms of effective stiffness for droplet excitations in the presence of domain walls. The simulated results in not only isothermal but also T -shift aging processes exhibit the expected scaling behavior with respect to the characteristic length scales associated with droplet excitations and domain walls in spite of the fact that the growth law for these length scales still shows a pre-asymptotic behavior compared with the asymptotic form proposed by the droplet theory. Implications of our simulational results are also discussed in relation to experimental observations.