Aging, phase ordering, and conformal invariance -: art. no. 265701

In a variety of systems which exhibit aging, the two-time response function scales as R(t,s) approximate to s(-1-a)f(t/s). We argue that dynamical scaling can be extended towards conformal invariance, thus obtaining the explicit form of the scaling function f. This quantitative prediction is confirmed in several spin systems, both for T < T-c (phase ordering) and T = T-c (nonequilibrium critical dynamics). The 2D and 3D Ising models with Glauber dynamics are studied numerically, while exact results are available for the spherical model with a nonconserved order parameter, both for short-ranged and long-ranged interactions, as well as for the mean-field spherical spin glass.