Output details

Nonconverging hysteresis cycles in random spin networks

Significance of output:

The phenomenon of hysteresis is ubiquitous in systems far from equilibrium yet it remains poorly understood. Combining the complex network theory and hysteresis models originally developed in magnetism, this paper discovers a fundamental link between the non-thermal hysteresis cycle formation and the system’s microstructural interaction structure, where novel behaviour resembling dynamical phase transition appears for sufficiently complex interaction network. This work is significant in that it opens new possibilities for exploring the internal structure-induced phenomena in far from equilibrium systems.