Hysteresis dispersion scaling of a two-dimensional ferroelectric model

The ferroelectric hysteresis dispersion of a two-dimensional ferroelectric model lattice in an ac electric field of amplitude E0 and frequency ω over a wide range, respectively, is calculated by Monte Carlo simulation based on the Ginzburg-Landau theory on tetragonal-type ferroelectric phase transitions. Given a fixed field amplitude E0, the hysteresis dispersion as a function of field frequency ω shows a single-peaked pattern, which predicts the existence of a characteristic time responsible for domain switching in an external electric field. The scaling analysis demonstrates that given different field amplitudes E0, the hysteresis dispersions can be scaled and the characteristic time depends inversely on the field amplitude E0 over a wide range of E0, but the large deviation occurs as E0 is very small or extremely large.