The Effect of Defects on Magnetic Droplet Nucleation

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Autores principales: Ettori, Federico, Sluckin, Timothy J., Biscari, Paolo
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Publicado: 2022
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author Ettori, Federico
Sluckin, Timothy J.
Biscari, Paolo
author_facet Ettori, Federico
Sluckin, Timothy J.
Biscari, Paolo
contents Defects and impurities strongly affect the timing and the character of the (re)ordering or disordering transitions of thermodynamic systems captured in metastable states. In this paper we analyze the case of two-dimensional magnetic systems. We adapt the classical JMAK theory to account for the effects of defects on the free energy barriers, the critical droplet area and the associated metastable time. The resulting predictions are successfully tested against the Monte-Carlo simulations performed by adopting Glauber dynamics, to obtain reliable time-dependent results during the out-of-equilibrium transformations. We also focus on finite-size effects, and study how the spinodal line (separating the singledroplet from the multi-droplet regime) depends on the system size, the defect fraction, and the external field.
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Ettori, Federico
Sluckin, Timothy J.
Biscari, Paolo
Statistical Mechanics
Defects and impurities strongly affect the timing and the character of the (re)ordering or disordering transitions of thermodynamic systems captured in metastable states. In this paper we analyze the case of two-dimensional magnetic systems. We adapt the classical JMAK theory to account for the effects of defects on the free energy barriers, the critical droplet area and the associated metastable time. The resulting predictions are successfully tested against the Monte-Carlo simulations performed by adopting Glauber dynamics, to obtain reliable time-dependent results during the out-of-equilibrium transformations. We also focus on finite-size effects, and study how the spinodal line (separating the singledroplet from the multi-droplet regime) depends on the system size, the defect fraction, and the external field.
title The Effect of Defects on Magnetic Droplet Nucleation
topic Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02138