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In this thesis, we discuss nonequilibrium ferromagnetic random field Ising model (RFIM) with zero temperature Glauber single spin flip dynamics. We briefly review the hysteresis in ferromagnets and Barkhausen effect. We discuss some earlier…
With respect to usual thermal ferromagnetic transitions, the zero-temperature finite-disorder critical point of the Random-field Ising model (RFIM) has the peculiarity to involve some 'droplet' exponent $\theta$ that enters the generalized…
We investigate the non-equilibrium behavior of the $3d$ random field Ising model at finite temperature, as an external field is increased through its coercive field. We show by numerical simulations that the phenomenology of avalanches --…
Simulations with more than $10^{12}$ spins are used to study the motion of a domain wall driven through a three-dimensional random-field Ising magnet (RFIM) by an external field $H$. The interface advances in a series of avalanches whose…
We present a numerical study of the zero-temperature response of the Gaussian random-field Ising model (RFIM) to a slowly varying external field, allowing the system to be trapped in microscopic configurations that are not fully metastable.…
Perturbation theory for the random-field Ising model (RFIM) has the infamous attribute that it predicts at all orders a dimensional-reduction property for the critical behavior that turns out to be wrong in low dimension. Guided by our…
We consider the zero-temperature single-spin-flip dynamics of the random-field Ising model on a Bethe lattice in the presence of an external field h. We derive the exact self-consistent equations to determine the distribution Prob(s) of…
Avalanche dynamics and related power law statistics are ubiquitous in nature, arising in phenomena like earthquakes, forest fires and solar flares. Very interestingly, an analogous behavior is associated with many condensed matter systems,…
The behaviour of the Random Anisotropy Ising model at T=0 under local relaxation dynamics is studied. The model includes a dominant ferromagnetic interaction and assumes an infinite anisotropy at each site along local anisotropy axes which…
A mapping of avalanches occurring in the zero-temperature random-field Ising model (zt-RFIM) to life-periods of a population experiencing immigration is established. Such a mapping allows the microscopic criteria for occurrence of an…
We study the non-equilibrium behavior of the three-dimensional Gaussian random-field Ising model at T=0 in the presence of a uniform external field using a 2-spin-flip dynamics. The deterministic, history-dependent evolution of the system…
We study the hysteretic evolution of the random field Ising model (RFIM) at T=0 when the magnetization M is controlled externally and the magnetic field H becomes the output variable. The dynamics is a simple modification of the…
We study the zero-temperature quasi-statically driven dynamics of the random field Blume--Emery--Griffiths model (RFBEGM) as a minimal framework to investigate the consequences of violating the no-passing property in driven disordered…
The random field Ising model driven by a slowly varying uniform external field at zero temperature provides a caricature of several threshold activated systems. In this model, the non-equilibrium response of the system can be obtained…
The nonequilibrium zero-temperature Random Field Ising Model (RFIM) has been extensively studied to understand critical response and avalanches in disordered driven systems. The emergence of power-law behaviour is observed over a wide…
We study the distribution of equilibrium avalanches (shocks) in Ising spin glasses which occur at zero temperature upon small changes in the magnetic field. For the infinite-range Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model we present a detailed…
We study a quasi-statically driven random field Ising model (RFIM) at zero temperature with interactions mediated by the long-range anisotropic Eshelby kernel. Analogously to amorphous solids at their yielding transition, and differently…
Intensive numerical studies of exact ground states of the 2-d ferromagnetic random field Ising model at T=0 with gaussian distribution of fields are presented. Standard finite size scaling analysis of the data suggests the existence of a…
Within the framework of the random first-order transition theory of glasses, we discuss the statistics of thermal avalanches, the large scale rearrangements in driven amorphous systems near their instability. Stringy excitations yield…
We study the critical behavior of the one-dimensional random field Ising model (RFIM) with long-range interactions ($\propto r^{-(d+\sigma)}$) by the nonperturbative functional renormalization group. We find two distinct regimes of critical…