Influence of the number of orientational domains on avalanche criticality in ferroelastic transitions
In this work, we study the relationship between avalanche criticality and the number of orientational domains in ferroelastic transitions. To this end, we use a general Ginzburg-Landau model appropriate for displacive transitions of the square lattice. The model includes disorder as a quenched distribution of local transition temperatures. We focus on the square-to-rectangle and the square-to-oblique ferroelastic transitions, which have two and four orientational domains, respectively, which in turn determine the corresponding degeneracy of the ground state of the system. The phase transitions are driven by temperature under the assumption of a strict athermal behavior. That is, we assume that thermal fluctuations do not play any role. Numerical results are obtained using a purely relaxational dynamics, and it is shown that both the square-to-rectangle and the square-to-oblique transitions occur intermittently in the form of avalanches. Avalanche sizes and avalanche energies are found to display power-law distributions, which corroborates avalanche criticality. We compare and contrast the dependence of avalanche criticality on the number of orientational domains of the low-symmetry phase. It is found that the critical exponents depend on that number, in agreement with recent experimental results.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 1782643
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--19-27335
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review E, Journal Name: Physical Review E Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 100; ISSN 2470-0045
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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