Abstract We investigate the dynamic phase transition properties of the two-dimensional anisotropic kinetic Ising model driven by a square-wave magnetic field. Spatial anisotropy is introduced through direction-dependent coupling strengths, and the system is analyzed using large-scale Monte Carlo simulations combined with finite-size scaling techniques. Several observables are computed to characterize the critical behavior and identify the transition points. Our results show that the presence of spatial anisotropy does not alter the universal nature of the transition, which remains consistent with that of the equilibrium Ising model. The findings highlight the robustness of the equilibrium Ising universality class even under spatial anisotropy and a time-dependent driving magnetic field.
We have studied the anisotropic three-dimensional nearest-neighbor Ising model with competitive interactions in an uniform longitudinal magnetic field
H. The model consists of ferromagnetic interaction
Jx(Jz) in the
x(z) direction and antiferromagnetic interaction
Jy in the
y direction. We have compared our calculations within a effective-field theory in clusters with four spins (EFT-4) in the simple cubic (sc) lattice with traditional Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The phase diagrams in the
h−kBT/Jx plane (
h=H/Jx) were obtained for the particular case
λ1=Jy/Jx(λ2=Jz/Jx)=1 (anisotropic sc). Our results indicate second-order frontiers for all values of
H for the particular case
λ2=0 (square lattice), while in case
λ1=λ2=1, we observe first- and second-order phase transitions in the low and high temperature limits, respectively, with presence of a tricritical point. Using EFT-4, a reentrant behavior at low temperature was observed in contrast with results of MC.