Influence of the aspect ratio and boundary conditions on universal finite size scaling functions in the athermal metastable 2d Random Field Ising Model

Abstract

This work studies universal finite size scaling functions for the number of 1d spanning avalanches in a two-dimensional disordered system with boundary conditions of different nature and different aspect ratios. For this purpose, we consider the 2d Random Field Ising Model at T = 0 driven by the external field H with athermal dynamics implemented with periodic and forced boundary conditions. We choose a convenient scaling variable z that accounts for the deformation of the distance to the critical point caused by the aspect ratio. Moreover, assuming that the dependence of the finite size scaling functions on the aspect ratio can be accounted by an additional multiplicative factor, we have been able to collapse data for different system sizes, different aspect ratios and different nature of the boundary conditions into a single scaling function Q.