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Area of Science:

  • Statistical physics
  • Condensed matter physics

Background:

  • The behavior of spin models in random fields is complex.
  • Understanding avalanche dynamics is key to many physical phenomena.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of system size on avalanche behavior in athermal nonequilibrium random-field Ising models.
  • To analyze the resulting power-law distributions and their scaling properties.

Main Methods:

  • Numerical simulations of the random-field Ising model on thin striplike cubic lattices.
  • Analysis of avalanche size, duration, and energy distributions.
  • Investigation of system size effects on avalanche dimensionality and scaling.

Main Results:

  • Avalanche behavior is strongly dependent on system dimensions, exhibiting 3D-like, 2D-like, and 1D-like characteristics.
  • Double power-law distributions for avalanche size, duration, and energy were observed.
  • Distributions exhibit scaling with system thickness and can be collapsed using proposed predictions.

Conclusions:

  • System geometry dictates avalanche dynamics and scaling in these spin models.
  • The observed scaling behavior provides insights for interpreting experimental data, such as Barkhausen noise.
  • External field effects on triggering large avalanches are influenced by system size and disorder.