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Frozen Disorder in a Driven System

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We investigate the effects of quenched disorder on the universal properties of a randomly driven Ising lattice gas. The Hamiltonian fixed point of the pure system becomes unstable in the presence of a quenched local bias, giving rise to a new fixed point which controls a novel universality class. We determine the associated scaling forms of correlation and response functions, quoting critical exponents to two-loop order in an expansion around the upper critical dimension dc=5_c=5.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9609166,
  title  = {Frozen Disorder in a Driven System},
  author = {B. Schmittmann and K. E. Bassler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9609166},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages RevTex. Uses multicol.sty. Accepted for publication in PRL