With Monte Carlo simulations, we systematically investigate the depinning phase transition in the two-dimensional driven random-field clock model. Based on the short-time dynamic approach, we determine the transition field and critical exponents. The results show that the critical exponents vary with the form of the random-field distribution and the strength of the random fields, and the roughening dynamics of the domain interface belongs to the new subclass with $\zeta \ne {\zeta }_{\mathrm{loc}}\ne {\zeta }_s$ and ${\zeta }_{\mathrm{loc}}\ne 1$. More importantly, we find that the transition field and critical exponents change with the initial orientations of the magnetization of the two ordered domains.

• Received 9 July 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.031129