The spreading of damage in the Ising ferromagnet in two-dimensional confined geometries of size L×M(L⪡M) close to the critical temperature is studied by means of computer simulations. Imposing both, periodic and open boundary conditions along the M-direction, the influence of the interfaces...

We studied damage spreading in a Driven Lattice Gas (DLG) model as a function of the temperature T, the magnitude of the external driving field E, and the lattice size. The DLG model undergoes an order–disorder second-order phase transition at the critical temperature Tc(E), such that the...