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Some recent (and surprising) results on interface and contact line depinning in random media

Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

I give a brief review of results obtained recently at Ecole Normale on the depinning transition of interfaces and contact lines using a variety of approaches: non-local Monte Carlo algorithms, dynamical renormalization group calculations to 2-loop order, and exact solution of an infinite-range model.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0204203,
  title  = {Some recent (and surprising) results on interface and contact line depinning in random media},
  author = {Jean Vannimenus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0204203},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at "Horizons in complex Systems" (Messina, December 2001), to be published in Physica A