Critical dynamics of the Baxter-Wu model.

The short-time behavior of the Baxter-Wu model is investigated through the relaxation of the order parameter at the critical temperature. We considered Monte Carlo simulations for this model on a triangular lattice, and we studied relaxation starting from the fourfold-degenerate ground state. Using the short-time scaling formalism we found the static critical exponents beta and nu of the model and the corresponding dynamical critical exponent z. The values of the static exponents we find agree with the exact ones. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first determination of the dynamical critical exponent of the Baxter-Wu model.