Random field Ising model: statistical properties of low-energy excitations and equilibrium avalanches

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2011/07/P07010zbMATH Open1456.82519arXiv1106.1742OpenAlexW3099283437MaRDI QIDQ3301259FDOQ3301259

Authors: Cécile Monthus, Thomas Garel 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: With respect to usual thermal ferromagnetic transitions, the zero-temperature finite-disorder critical point of the Random-field Ising model (RFIM) has the peculiarity to involve some 'droplet' exponent $heta$ that enters the generalized hyperscaling relation $2-alpha=u(d-heta)$. In the present paper, to better understand the meaning of this droplet exponent $heta$ beyond its role in the thermodynamics, we discuss the statistics of low-energy excitations generated by an imposed single spin-flip with respect to the ground state, as well as the statistics of equilibrium avalanches i.e. the magnetization jumps that occur in the sequence of ground-states as a function of the external magnetic field. The droplet scaling theory predicts that the distribution $dl/l^{1+heta}$ of the linear-size $l$ of low-energy excitations transforms into the distribution $ds/s^{1+heta/d_f}$ for the size $s$ (number of spins) of excitations of fractal dimension $d_f$ ($ssim{l}^{d_f}$). In the non-mean-field region $d<d_c$, droplets are compact $d_f=d$, whereas in the mean-field region $d>d_c$, droplets have a fractal dimension $d_f=2heta$ leading to the well-known mean-field result $ds/s^{3/2}$. Zero-field equilibrium avalanches are expected to display the same distribution $ds/s^{1+heta/d_f}$. We also discuss the statistics of equilibrium avalanches integrated over the external field and finite-size behaviors. These expectations are checked numerically for the Dyson hierarchical version of the RFIM, where the droplet exponent $heta(sigma)$ can be varied as a function of the effective long-range interaction $J(r)sim1/r^{d+sigma}$ in $d=1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1742

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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