{
  "id": "2103.06580",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2021-03-11T10:16:24.000Z",
  "updated": "2021-03-11T10:16:24.000Z",
  "title": "Metastable behavior of the spin-$s$ Ising and Blume-Capel ferromagnets: A Monte Carlo study",
  "authors": [
    "Moumita Naskar",
    "Muktish Acharyya",
    "Erol Vatansever",
    "Nikolaos G Fytas"
  ],
  "comment": "12 pages Latex (Text), 8 Captioned pdf figures and 3 tables",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present an extensive Monte Carlo investigation of the metastable lifetime through the reversal of the magnetization of the spin-$s$ Ising and Blume-Capel models, where $s=\\{1/2, 1, 3/2,2,5/2,3,7/2\\}$. The mean metastable lifetime (or reversal time) is studied as a function of the applied magnetic field and for both models is found to obey the Becker-D{\\\"o}ring theory, as was initially developed for the case of the $s=1/2$ Ising ferromagnet within the classical nucleation theory. We have also studied the decay of the metastable volume fraction which nicely follows Avrami's law for all values of $s$ and for both models. For the case of the Blume-Capel model, the integral behavior of the mean metastable lifetime as function of the temperature ($T$) and single-ion anisotropy ($\\Delta$) shows a monotonic variation of the surface (reversal surface) in a three-dimensional plot. Interestingly, the reversal surface appears to be insensitive to the $T-\\Delta$ phase boundary of the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition of the Blume-Capel ferromagne",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2021-03-11T10:16:24.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "monte carlo study",
      "blume-capel ferromagnets",
      "metastable behavior",
      "mean metastable lifetime",
      "blume-capel model"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 12,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}