Muktish Acharyya

Monte Carlo study of dynamic phase transition in Ising metamagnet driven by oscillating magnetic field

Abstract The dynamical responses of Ising metamagnet (layered antiferromagnet) in the presence of a sinusoidally oscillating magnetic field are studied by Monte Carlo simulation. The time average staggered magnetisation plays the role of dynamic order parameter. A dynamical phase transition was observed and a phase diagram was plotted in the plane formed by field amplitude and temperature. The dynamical phase boundary is observed to shrink inward as the relative antiferromagnetic strength decreases. The results are compared with that obtained from pure ferromagnetic system. The shape of dynamic phase boundary observed to be qualitatively similar to that obtained from previous meanfield calculations.

Non-equilibrium phase transition in the kinetic Ising model driven by a propagating magnetic field wave

The two-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model in the presence of a propagating magnetic field wave (with a well-defined frequency and wavelength) was studied by Monte Carlo simulation. This study differs from similar earlier studies, because in earlier studies the oscillating magnetic field was considered to be uniform in space. The time averaged magnetization over a full cycle (the time period) of the propagating magnetic field acted as the dynamic order parameter. The dynamical phase transition was observed. The temperature variation of the dynamic order parameter, the mean square deviation of the dynamic order parameter, the dynamic specific heat and the derivative of the dynamic order parameter were studied. The mean square deviation of the dynamic order parameter and the dynamic specific heat show sharp maxima near the transition point. The derivative of the dynamic order parameter shows a sharp minimum near the transition point. The transition temperature is found to depend also on the speed of propagation of the magnetic field wave.

Dynamic-symmetry-breaking breathing and spreading transitions in ferromagnetic film irradiated by spherical electromagnetic wave

Abstract The dynamical responses of a ferromagnetic film to a propagating spherical electromagnetic wave passing through it are studied by Monte Carlo simulation of two dimensional Ising ferromagnet. For a fixed set of values of the frequency and wavelength of the spherical EM wave, and depending on the values of amplitude of the EM wave and temperature of the system, three different modes are identified. The static pinned mode, the localised dynamical breathing mode and extended dynamical spreading mode are observed. The nonequilibrium dynamical-symmetry-breaking breathing and spreading phase transitions are also observed and the transition temperatures are obtained as functions of the amplitude of the magnetic field of EM wave. A comprehensive phase diagram is drawn. The boundaries of breathing and spreading transitions merge eventually at the equilibrium transition temperature for two dimensional Ising ferromagnet as the value of the amplitude of the magnetic field becomes vanishingly small.

Random field Ising model swept by propagating magnetic field wave: Athermal nonequilibrium phasediagram

Abstract The dynamical steady state behaviour of the random field Ising ferromagnet swept by a propagating magnetic field wave is studied at zero temperature by Monte Carlo simulation in two dimensions. The distribution of the random field is bimodal type. For a fixed set of values of the frequency, wavelength and amplitude of propagating magnetic field wave and the strength of the random field, four distinct dynamical steady states or nonequilibrium phases were identified. These four nonequilibrium phases are characterised by different values of structure factors. State or phase of first kind, where all spins are parallel (up). This phase is a frozen or pinned where the propagating field has no effect. The second one is the propagating type, where the sharp strips formed by parallel spins are found to move coherently. The third one is also propagating type, where the boundary of the strips of spins is not very sharp. The fourth kind shows no propagation of strips of magnetic spins, forming a homogeneous distribution of up and down spins. This is disordered phase. The existence of these four dynamical phases or modes depends on the value of the amplitude of propagating magnetic field wave and the strength of random (static) field. A phase diagram has also been drawn, in the plane formed by the amplitude of propagating field and the strength of random field. It is also checked that the existence of these dynamical phases is neither a finite size effect nor a transient phenomenon.

Ising metamagnet driven by propagating magnetic field wave: Nonequilibrium phases and transitions

Abstract The nonequilibrium responses of Ising metamagnet (layered antiferromagnet) to the propagating magnetic wave are studied by Monte Carlo simulation. Here, the spatio-temporal variations of magnetic field keep the system away from equilibrium. The sublattice magnetisations show dynamical symmetry breaking in the low temperature ordered phase. The nonequilibrium phase transitions are studied from the temperature dependences of dynamic staggered order parameter, its derivative and the dynamic specific heat. The transitions are marked by the peak position of dynamic specific heat and the position of dip of the derivative of dynamic staggered order parameter. It is observed that, for lower values of the amplitudes of the propagating magnetic field, if the system is cooled from a high temperature, it undergoes a phase transition showing sharp peak of dynamic specific heat and sharp dip of the derivative of the dynamic staggered order parameter. However, for higher values of the amplitude of the propagating magnetic field, system exhibits multiple phase transitions. A comprehensive phase diagram is also plotted. The transition, for vanishingly small value of the amplitude of the propagating wave, is very close to that for equilibrium ferro–para phase transition of cubic Ising ferromagnet.

Polarised Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through the Ferromagnet: Phase Boundary of Dynamic Phase Transition

The dynamical responses of ferromagnet to the propagating electromagnetic field wave passing through it are modelled and studied here by Monte Carlo simulation in two dimensional Ising ferromagnet. Here, the electromagnetic wave is linearly polarised in such a way that the direction of magnetic field is parallel to that of the magnetic momemts (spins). The coherent propagating mode of spin-clusters is observed. The time average magnetisation over the full cycle (time) of the field defines the order parameter of the dynamic transition. Depending on the value of the temperature and the amplitude of the propagating magnetic field wave, a dynamical phase transition is observed. The dynamic transition was detected by studying the temperature dependences of the dynamic order parameter, the variance of the dynamic order parameter, the derivative of the dynamic order parameter and the dynamic specific heat. The phase boundaries of the dynamic transitions were drawn for two different values of the wave lengths of the propagating magnetic field wave. The phase boundary was observed to shrink (inward) for lower speed of propagation of the EM wave. The divergence of the releavant length scale was observed at the transition point.

Pauli Spin Paramagnetism and Electronic Specific Heat in Generalised d-Dimensions

The temperature variations of Pauli spin paramagnetic susceptibility and the electronic specific heat of solids, are calculated as functions of temperature following the free electron approximation, in generalised d-dimensions. The results are compared and become consistent with that obtained in three dimensions. Interestingly, the Pauli spin paramagnetic susceptibility becomes independent of temperature only in two dimensions.

Blume-Capel ferromagnet driven by propagating and standing magnetic field wave: Dynamical modes and nonequilibrium phase transition

Abstract The dynamical responses of Blume-Capel ( S =1) ferromagnet to the plane propagating (with fixed frequency and wavelength) and standing magnetic field waves are studied separately in two dimensions by extensive Monte Carlo simulation. Depending on the values of temperature, amplitude of the propagating magnetic field and the strength of anisotropy, two different dynamical phases are observed. For a fixed value of anisotropy and the amplitude of the propagating magnetic field, the system undergoes a dynamical phase transition from a driven spin wave propagating phase to a pinned or spin frozen state as the system is cooled down. The time averaged magnetisation over a full cycle of the propagating magnetic field plays the role of the dynamic order parameter. A comprehensive phase diagram is plotted in the plane formed by the amplitude of the propagating wave and the temperature of the system. It is found that the phase boundary shrinks inward as the anisotropy increases. The phase boundary, in the plane described by the strength of the anisotropy and temperature, is also drawn. This phase boundary was observed to shrink inward as the field amplitude increases.

Standing magnetic wave on Ising ferromagnet: Nonequilibrium phase transition

Abstract The dynamical response of an Ising ferromagnet to a plane polarised standing magnetic field wave is modelled and studied here by Monte Carlo simulation in two dimensions. The amplitude of standing magnetic wave is modulated along the direction x . We have detected two main dynamical phases namely, pinned and oscillating spin clusters . Depending on the value of field amplitude the system is found to undergo a phase transition from oscillating spin cluster to pinned as the system is cooled down. The time averaged magnetisation over a full cycle of magnetic field oscillations is defined as the dynamic order parameter . The transition is detected by studying the temperature dependences of the variance of the dynamic order parameter, the derivative of the dynamic order parameter and the dynamic specific heat. The dependence of the transition temperature on the magnetic field amplitude and on the wavelength of the magnetic field wave is studied at a single frequency. A comprehensive phase boundary is drawn in the plane described by the temperature and field amplitude for two different wavelengths of the magnetic wave. The variation of instantaneous line magnetisation during a period of magnetic field oscillation for standing wave mode is compared to those for the propagating wave mode. Also the probability that a spin at any site, flips, is calculated. The above mentioned variations and the probability of spin flip clearly distinguish between the dynamical phases formed by propagating magnetic wave and by standing magnetic wave in an Ising ferromagnet.

Spatiotemporal dynamics of the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model with time-dependent connectivity.

We study the dynamics of the paradigmatic Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model of identical coupled phase oscillators with various kinds of time-dependent connectivity using Eulerian discretization. We explore the parameter spaces for various types of collective states using the phase plots of the two statistical quantities, namely, the strength of incoherence and the discontinuity measure. In the quasistatic limit of the changing of coupling range, we observe how the system relaxes from one state to another and identify a few interesting collective dynamical states along the way. Under a sinusoidal change of the coupling range, the global order parameter characterizing the degree of synchronization in the system is shown to undergo a hysteresis with the coupling range. We also study the low-dimensional spatiotemporal dynamics of the local order parameter in the continuum limit using the recently developed Ott-Antonsen ansatz and justify some of our numerical results. In particular, we identify an intrinsic time scale of the Kuramoto system and show that the simulations exhibit two distinct kinds of qualitative behavior in two cases when the time scale associated with the switching of the coupling radius is very large compared to the intrinsic time scale and when it is comparable to the intrinsic time scale.