https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2005-00132-5
Metastable states and T = 0 hysteresis in the random-field Ising model on random graphs
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique des Liquides, Université Pierre et
Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Corresponding author: a mlr@lptl.jussieu.fr
Received:
2
December
2004
Published online:
28
April
2005
We study the ferromagnetic random-field Ising model on random
graphs of fixed connectivity z (Bethe lattice) in the presence of an
external magnetic field H. We compute the number of single-spin-flip
stable configurations with a given magnetization m and study the
connection between the distribution of these metastable states in the plane
(focusing on the region where the number is exponentially large) and
the shape of the saturation hysteresis loop obtained by cycling the
field between
and
at T=0. The annealed complexity
is
calculated for z=2,3,4 and the quenched complexity
for
z=2. We prove explicitly for z=2 that the contour
coincides with the saturation loop. On the other hand, we show that
is irrelevant for describing, even qualitatively, the observable hysteresis properties of the system.
PACS: 75.10.Nr – Spin-glass and other random models / 75.60.Ej – Magnetization curves, hysteresis, Barkhausen and related effects / 05.50.+q – Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)
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