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Morphology transitions in three-dimensional domain growth with Gaussian random fields

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study the morphology of magnetic domain growth in disordered three dimensional magnets. The disordered magnetic material is described within the random-field Ising model with a Gaussian distribution of local fields with width Δ\Delta. Growth is driven by a uniform applied magnetic field, whose value is kept equal to the critical value Hc(Δ)H_c(\Delta) for the onset of steady motion. Two growth regimes are clearly identified. For low Δ\Delta the growing domain is compact, with a self-affine external interface. For large Δ\Delta a self-similar percolation-like morphology is obtained. A multi-critical point at (Δc(\Delta_c, Hc(Δc))H_c(\Delta_c)) separates the two types of growth. We extract the critical exponents near Δc\Delta_c using finite-size scaling of different morphological attributes of the external domain interface. We conjecture that the critical disorder width also corresponds to a maximum in Hc(Δ)H_c(\Delta).

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0004183,
  title  = {Morphology transitions in three-dimensional domain growth with Gaussian random fields},
  author = {Belita Koiller and Mark O. Robbins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0004183},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

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