Dynamic Phase Transition in a Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Model in an Oscillating Field

Details Dynamic Phase Transition in a Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Model in an Oscillating Field Dynamic Phase Transition in a Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Model in an Oscillating Field

2000-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009284v1

Phys. Rev. E 63 (2001) 036109; erratum 63 (2001) 059903(E)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

16 pp. RevTex, 9 embedded ps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.63.036109

The Ginzburg-Landau model below its critical temperature in a temporally oscillating external field is studied both theoretically and numerically. As the frequency or the amplitude of the external force is changed, a nonequilibrium phase transition is observed. This transition separates spatially uniform, symmetry-restoring oscillations from symmetry-breaking oscillations. Near the transition a perturbation theory is developed, and a switching phenomenon is found in the symmetry-broken phase. Our results confirm the equivalence of the present transition to that found in Monte Carlo simulations of kinetic Ising systems in oscillating fields, demonstrating that the nonequilibrium phase transition in both cases belongs to the universality class of the equilibrium Ising model in zero field. This conclusion is in agreement with symmetry arguments [G. Grinstein, C. Jayaprakash, and Y. He, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2527 (1985)] and recent numerical results [G. Korniss, C.J. White, P. A. Rikvold, and M. A. Novotny, Phys. Rev. E (submitted)]. Furthermore, a theoretical result for the structure function of the local magnetization with thermal noise, based on the Ornstein-Zernike approximation, agrees well with numerical results in one dimension.

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