{
  "id": "cond-mat/0008155",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2000-08-09T18:52:27.000Z",
  "updated": "2000-08-09T18:52:27.000Z",
  "title": "Dynamic Phase Transition, Universality, and Finite-size Scaling in the Two-dimensional Kinetic Ising Model in an Oscillating Field",
  "authors": [
    "G. Korniss",
    "C. J. White",
    "P. A. Rikvold",
    "M. A. Novotny"
  ],
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. E 63, 016120 (2001).",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.63.016120",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model below its equilibrium critical temperature, subject to a square-wave oscillating external field. We focus on the multi-droplet regime where the metastable phase decays through nucleation and growth of many droplets of the stable phase. At a critical frequency, the system undergoes a genuine non-equilibrium phase transition, in which the symmetry-broken phase corresponds to an asymmetric stationary limit cycle for the time-dependent magnetization. We investigate the universal aspects of this dynamic phase transition at various temperatures and field amplitudes via large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, employing finite-size scaling techniques adopted from equilibrium critical phenomena. The critical exponents, the fixed-point value of the fourth-order cumulant, and the critical order-parameter distribution all are consistent with the universality class of the two-dimensional equilibrium Ising model. We also study the cross-over from the multi-droplet to the strong-field regime, where the transition disappears.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2000-08-09T18:52:27.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "two-dimensional kinetic ising model",
      "dynamic phase transition",
      "oscillating field",
      "universality",
      "finite-size scaling techniques"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. E"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}