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Chaos and residual correlations in pinned disordered systems

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-11 v2 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We study, using functional renormalization (FRG), two copies of an elastic system pinned by mutually correlated random potentials. Short scale decorrelation depend on a non trivial boundary layer regime with (possibly multiple) chaos exponents. Large scale mutual displacement correlation behave as xx2ζμ|x-x'|^{2 \zeta - \mu}, the decorrelation exponent μ\mu proportional to the difference between Flory (or mean field) and exact roughness exponent ζ\zeta. For short range disorder μ>0\mu >0 but small, e.g. for random bond interfaces μ=5ζϵ\mu = 5 \zeta - \epsilon, ϵ=4d\epsilon=4-d, and μ=ϵ((2π)2361)\mu = \epsilon (\frac{(2 \pi)^2}{36} - 1) for the one component Bragg glass. Random field (i.e long range) disorder exhibits finite residual correlations (no chaos μ=0\mu = 0) described by new FRG fixed points. Temperature and dynamic chaos (depinning) are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0505679,
  title  = {Chaos and residual correlations in pinned disordered systems},
  author = {Pierre Le Doussal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0505679},
  year   = {2009}
}

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