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American Physical Society, Physical review E: Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 1(52), p. R5-R8, 1995

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.52.r5

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Universality in models for disorder induced phase transitions

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Abstract

We have systematically analyzed six different reticular models with quenched disorder and no thermal fluctuations exhibiting a field-driven first-order phase transition. We have studied the nonequilibrium transition, appearing when varying the amount of disorder, characterized by the change from a discontinuous hysteresis cycle (with one or more large avalanches) to a smooth one (with only tiny avalanches). We have computed critical exponents using finite size scaling techniques and shown that they are consistent with universal values depending only on the space dimensionality d.