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1CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, E-20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Abstract:
We investigate the scaling behavior of the magnetic dynamic order parameter Q in the vicinity of the dynamic phase transition (DPT) in the presence of temporal field sequences H(t) that are periodic with period P but lack half-wave antisymmetry. We verify by means of mean-field calculations that the scaling of Q is preserved in the vicinity of the second-order phase transition if one defines a suitable generalized conjugate field H^{*} that reestablishes the proper time-reversal symmetry. For the purpose of our quantitative data analysis, we employ the dynamic equivalent of the Arrott-Noakes equation of state, which allows for a simultaneous scaling analysis of the period P and the conjugate-field H^{*} dependence of Q. By doing so, we demonstrate that both the scaling behavior and universality are preserved, even if the dynamics is driven by a more general applied field sequence that lacks antisymmetry.
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