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arXiv:1502.03046 · Physical Review B

Driven-dissipative Ising model: Mean-field solution

Garry Goldstein, Camille Aron, Claudio Chamon

Published Nov 23, 2015• 14 citations
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Abstract

We study the fate of the Ising model and its universal properties when driven by a rapid periodic drive and weakly coupled to a bath at equilibrium. The far-from-equilibrium steady-state regime is accessed by means of a Floquet mean-field approach. We show that, depending on the details of the bath, the drive can strongly renormalize the critical temperature to higher temperatures, modify the critical exponents, or even change the nature of the phase transition from second to first order after the emergence of a tricritical point. Moreover, by judiciously selecting the frequency of the field and by engineering the spectrum of the bath, one can drive a ferromagnetic Hamiltonian to an antiferromagnetically ordered phase and vice versa.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.92.174418

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