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Nonuniversal scaling behavior of Barkhausen noise

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We simulate Barkhausen avalanches on fractal clusters in a two-dimensional diluted Ising ferromagnet with an effective Gaussian random field. We vary the concentration of defect sites cc and find a scaling region for moderate disorder, where the distribution of avalanche sizes has the form D(s,c,L)=s(1+τ(c))D(sLDs(c))D(s,c,L) = s^{-(1+\tau (c))}{\cal{D}}(sL^{-D_s(c)}). The exponents τ(c)\tau (c) for size and α(c)\alpha (c) for length distribution, and the fractal dimension of avalanches Ds(c)D_s(c) satisfy the scaling relation Ds(c)τ(c)=α(c)D_s(c)\tau (c) =\alpha (c). For fixed disorder the exponents vary with driving rate in agreement with experiments on amorphous Si-Fe alloys.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9609050,
  title  = {Nonuniversal scaling behavior of Barkhausen noise},
  author = {Bosiljka Tadic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9609050},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, Latex, 4 PostScript figures included