Critical exponents of the driven elastic string in a disordered medium.
We analyze the harmonic elastic string driven through a continuous random potential above the depinning threshold. The velocity exponent beta = 0.33(2) is calculated. We observe a crossover in the roughness exponent zeta from the critical value 1.26 to the asymptotic (large force) value of 0.5. We calculate directly the velocity correlation function and the corresponding correlation length exponent nu = 1.29(5), which obeys the scaling relation nu = 1/(2 - zeta), and agrees with nu(FS), the finite-size-scaling exponent of fluctuations in the critical force. Surprisingly, the velocity correlation function is nonuniversal at short distances.
Duemmer
Olaf
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CNRS-Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. duemmer@lps.ens.fr
Krauth
Werner
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