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Stochastic Dynamics in Quenched-in Disorder and Hysteresis

Materials Science 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The conditions under which relaxation dynamics in the presence of quenched-in disorder lead to rate-independent hysteresis are discussed. The calculation of average hysteresis branches is reduced to the solution of the level-crossing problem for the stochastic field describing quenched-in disorder. Closed analytical solutions are derived for the case where the disorder is characterized by Wiener-Levy statistics. This case is shown to be equivalent to the Preisach model and the associated Preisach distribution is explicitly derived, as a function of the parameters describing the original dynamic problem.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9811034,
  title  = {Stochastic Dynamics in Quenched-in Disorder and Hysteresis},
  author = {Giorgio Bertotti and Vittorio Basso and Alessandro Magni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9811034},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, MMM Conference, to be published on J.Appl.Phys