Naslov
Same universality class for the critical behavior in and out of equilibrium in a quenched random field

Autori
Balog, Ivan ; Tissier, Matthieu ; Tarjus, Gilles

Izvornik
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1098-0121) 89 (2014); 104201-1

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
phase transitions; systems with disorder; renormalization group

Sažetak
The random-field Ising model (RFIM) is one of the simplest statistical-mechanical models that captures the anomalous irreversible collective response seen in a wide range of physical, biological, or socioeconomic situations in the presence of interactions and intrinsic heterogeneity or disorder. When slowly driven at zero temperature, it can display an out-of-equilibrium phase transition associated with critical scaling (“crackling noise”), while it undergoes at equilibrium, under either temperature or disorder-strength changes, a thermodynamic phase transition. We show that the out-of-equilibrium and equilibrium critical behaviors are in the same universality class: they are controlled, in the renormalization-group (RG) sense, by the same zero-temperature fixed point. We do so by combining a field-theoretical formalism that accounts for the multiple metastable states and the exact (functional) RG. As a spin-off, we also demonstrate that critical fluids in disordered porous media are in the same universality class as the RFIM, thereby unifying a broad spectrum of equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium phenomena.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika

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