Nonlinear response of the trap model in the aging regime: exact results in the strong-disorder limit.
We study the dynamics in the one-dimensional disordered trap model with a broad distribution of trapping times p(tau) approximately 1/tau(1+mu), when an external force is applied from the very beginning at t=0, or only after a waiting time t(w), in the linear as well as in the nonlinear response regime. Using a real-space renormalization procedure that becomes exact in the limit of strong disorder mu-->0, we obtain explicit results for many observables, such as the diffusion front, the mean position, the thermal width, the localization parameters and the two-particle correlation function. In particular, the scaling functions for these observables give access to the complete interpolation between the unbiased case and the directed case. Finally, we discuss in detail the various regimes that exist for the average position in terms of the two times and the external field.
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Service de Physique Théorique, Unité de Recherche associée au CNRS, DSM/CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.