Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1997-04-07
Les Houches Workshop on ``Scale Invariance and Beyond", march 10-14, 1997, ed. B. Dubrulle, F. Graner, and D. Sornette, Spring
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Lecture given at a Les Houches workshop on "Scaling and Beyond"
Scientific paper
Hysteresis, the lag between the force and the response, is often associated with noisy, jerky motion which have recently been called ``avalanches''. The interesting question is why the avalanches come in such a variety of sizes: naively one would expect either all small events or one large one. Power-law distributions are often seen near transitions, or critical points. We study the zero temperature random field Ising model as a model for noise and avalanches in hysteretic systems. Tuning the amount of disorder in the system, we find an ordinary critical point with avalanches on all length scales. We study this critical point in 6-epsilon dimensions, and with simulations in 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 dimensions with systems as large as 1000^3. The power-law distributions in principle only occur for a special value of the randomness (the critical point), but many decades of scaling occur quite far from this special value: three decades of scaling (a publishable experiment) are obtained a factor of two away from the critical value. Perhaps many of the power laws observed in nature are just systems near their critical points?
Dahmen Karin A.
Perkovic Olga
Sethna James P.
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