title: Active clusters in disordered systems.
abstract: We introduce an exact algorithm to calculate the distribution of large low energy clusters (droplets) in disordered manifolds and disordered magnets, and we analyze the extent to which these clusters can be treated as independent two-level systems. We show that interfaces in randomly diluted networks always have broad droplet distributions, while diluted antiferromagnets in a field can have either power law or exponential droplet distributions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Fundamental Materials Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1116, USA. bastea@pa.msu.edu
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authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bastea
authors.forename: P M
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authors.lastname: Duxbury