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Path Integral Approach to Strongly Nonlinear Composite

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-10-31 v1 Materials Science Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study strongly nonlinear disordered media using a functional method. We solve exactly the problem of a nonlinear impurity in a linear host and we obtain a Bruggeman-like formula for the effective nonlinear susceptibility. This formula reduces to the usual Bruggeman effective medium approximation in the linear case and has the following features: (i) It reproduces the weak contrast expansion to the second order and (ii) the effective medium exponent near the percolation threshold are s=1s=1, t=1+κt=1+\kappa, where κ\kappa is the nonlinearity exponent. Finally, we give analytical expressions for previously numerically calculated quantities.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0005504,
  title  = {Path Integral Approach to Strongly Nonlinear Composite},
  author = {Marc Barthelemy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0005504},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. B