Abstract
We investigate the off-equilibrium dynamics of a classical spin system with symmetry in 2 < D < 4 spatial dimensions and in the limit .
The system is set up in an ordered equilibrium state and is
subsequently driven out of equilibrium by slowly varying the external
magnetic field h across the transition line at fixed temperature . We distinguish the cases where the magnetic transition is continuous and
where the transition is discontinuous. In the former case, we apply a
standard Kibble–Zurek approach to describe the non-equilibrium scaling
and formally compute the correlation functions and scaling relations.
For the discontinuous transition we develop a scaling theory which
builds on the coherence length rather than the correlation length since
the latter remains finite for all times. Finally, we derive the
off-equilibrium scaling relations for the hysteresis loop area during a
round-trip protocol that takes the system across its phase transition
and back. Remarkably, our results are valid beyond the large-n limit.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | J. Stat. Mech. |
| Volume | 2018 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Nov 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Keywords
- cond-mat.stat-mech