Roughness and critical force for depinning at 3-loop order
Abstract
A -dimensional elastic manifold at depinning is described by a renormalized field theory, based on the Functional Renormalization Group (FRG). Here we analyze this theory to 3-loop order, equivalent to third order in , where is the internal dimension. The critical exponent reads . Using that , we estimate , and . For Gaussian disorder, the pinning force per site is estimated as , where is the strength of the confining potential, a universal amplitude, the correlation length of the disorder, and a non-universal lattice dependent term. For charge-density waves, we find a mapping to the standard -theory with symmetry in the limit of . This gives , with , reminiscent of log-CFTs.
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@article{arxiv.2310.12801,
title = {Roughness and critical force for depinning at 3-loop order},
author = {Mikhail N. Semeikin and Kay Joerg Wiese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.12801},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
26 pages, 18 figures. v3: missing reference added and typos corrected