Study of Damage Propagation at the Interface Localization-Delocalization Transition of the Confined Ising Model

Abstract

The propagation of damage in a confined magnetic Ising film, with short range competing magnetic fields ($h$) acting at opposite walls, is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. Due to the presence of the fields, the film undergoes a wetting transition at a well defined critical temperature $T_w(h)$. In fact, the competing fields causes the occurrence of an interface between magnetic domains of different orientation. For $T<T_w(h)$ ($T>T_w(h)$) such interface is bounded (unbounded) to the walls, while right at $T_w(h)$ the interface is essentially located at the center of the film. It is found that the spatio-temporal spreading of the damage becomes considerably enhanced by the presence of the interface, which act as a ''catalyst'' of the damage causing an enhancement of the total damaged area. The critical points for damage spreading are evaluated by extrapolation to the thermodynamic limit using a finite-size scaling approach. Furthermore, the wetting transition effectively shifts the location of the damage spreading critical points, as compared with the well known critical temperature of the order-disorder transition characteristic of the Ising model. Such a critical points are found to be placed within the non-wet phase.

arXiv comment22 pages, 13 figures included

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