Universality in models for disorder induced phase transitions


Autoria(s): Vives i Santa-Eulàlia, Eduard; Goicoechea, Jürgen; Ortín, Jordi, 1959-; Planes Vila, Antoni
Contribuinte(s)

Universitat de Barcelona

Data(s)

26/07/2011

Resumo

We have systematically analyzed six different reticular models with quenched disorder and no thermal fluctuations exhibiting a field-driven first-order phase transition. We have studied the nonequilibrium transition, appearing when varying the amount of disorder, characterized by the change from a discontinuous hysteresis cycle (with one or more large avalanches) to a smooth one (with only tiny avalanches). We have computed critical exponents using finite size scaling techniques and shown that they are consistent with universal values depending only on the space dimensionality d.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/2445/18755

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

The American Physical Society

Direitos

(c) The American Physical Society, 1995

Palavras-Chave #Física estadística #Termodinàmica #Sistemes dinàmics diferenciables #Equacions d'estat #Transformacions de fase (Física estadística) #Materials magnètics #Ciència de materials #Statistical physics #Thermodynamics #Differentiable dynamical systems #Equations of state #Phase transformations (Statistical physics) #Magnetic materials #Materials science
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article