Nonequilibrium phase transitions and stationary-state solutions of a three-dimensional random-field Ising model under a time-dependent periodic external field

Nonequilibrium behavior and dynamic phase-transition properties of a kinetic Ising model under the influence of periodically oscillating random fields have been analyzed within the framework of effective-field theory based on a decoupling approximation. A dynamic equation of motion has been solved for a simple-cubic lattice (q = 6) by utilizing a Glauber-type stochastic process. Amplitude of the sinusoidally oscillating magnetic field is randomly distributed on the lattice sites according to bimodal and trimodal distribution functions. For a bimodal type of amplitude distribution, it is found in the high-frequency regime that the dynamic phase diagrams of the system in the temperature versus field amplitude plane resemble the corresponding phase diagrams of the pure kinetic Ising model. Our numerical results indicate that for a bimodal distribution, both in the low- and high-frequency regimes, the dynamic phase diagrams always exhibit a coexistence region in which the stationary state (ferro or para) of the system is completely dependent on the initial conditions, whereas for a trimodal distribution, the coexistence region disappears depending on the values of the system parameters.