Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1998-11-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
30 Pages Revtex, 10 Postscript figures. To appear in Reviews of Modern Physics, April, 1999
Scientific paper
10.1103/RevModPhys.71.847
When an interacting many-body system, such as a magnet, is driven in time by an external perturbation, such as a magnetic field,the system cannot respond instantaneously due to relaxational delay. The response of such a system under a time-dependent field leads to many novel physical phenomena with intriguing physics and important technological applications. For oscillating fields, one obtains hysteresis that would not occur under quasistatic conditions in the presence of thermal fluctuations. Under some extreme conditions of the driving field, one can also obtain a non-zero average value of the variable undergoing such dynamic hysteresis. This non-zero value indicates a breaking of symmetry of the hysteresis loop, around the origin. Such a transition to the spontaneously broken symmetric phase occurs dynamically when the driving frequency of the field increases beyond its threshold value which depends on the field amplitude and the temperature. Similar dynamic transitions also occur for pulsed and stochastically varying fields. We present an overview of the ongoing researches in this not-so-old field of dynamic hysteresis and transitions.
Acharyya Muktish
Chakrabarti Bikas K.
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