JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, vol.53, no.4, pp.1807-1820, 2008 (SCI-Expanded)
We calculate the dynamic phase transition (DPT) temperatures and present the dynamic phase diagrams in the kinetic spin-2 Blume-Emery-Griffiths model with repulsive biquadratic coupling under the presence of a time-dependent oscillating external magnetic field. First, we employ the Glauber transition rates to construct the set of mean-field dynamic equations. Then, we study the time variation of the average order parameters to find the phase in the system. We also investigate the behavior of the dynamic order parameters to characterize the nature (continuous or discontinuous) of the transition and to obtain the DPT points. We present the dynamic phase diagrams in the plane of the reduced temperature versus magnetic field amplitude. The phase diagrams exhibit the ferrimagnetic, ferromagnetic -2, the ferromagnetic -1, antiquadrupolar and disordered fundamental phases. In addition to these fundamental phases, depending on the interaction parameters, we find ten coexisting or mixed phases composed of binary and ternary combinations of fundamental phases. The phase diagrams also display many special points, such as a dynamic tricritical point, a zero-temperature critical point, a critical end point, a double critical end point, a multicritical point, a triple point and a tetracritical point.