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Universal energy distribution for interfaces in a random field environment

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-10 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study the energy distribution function ρ(E)\rho (E) for interfaces in a random field environment at zero temperature by summing the leading terms in the perturbation expansion of ρ(E)\rho (E) in powers of the disorder strength, and by taking into account the non perturbational effects of the disorder using the functional renormalization group. We have found that the average and the variance of the energy for one-dimensional interface of length LL behave as, <E>RLlnL<E>_{R}\propto L\ln L, ΔERL\Delta E_{R}\propto L, while the distribution function of the energy tends for large LL to the Gumbel distribution of the extreme value statistics.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0302444,
  title  = {Universal energy distribution for interfaces in a random field environment},
  author = {Andrei A. Fedorenko and Semjon Stepanow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0302444},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, revtex4; the distribution function of the total and the disorder energy is included