Invading interfaces and blocking surfaces in high dimensional disordered systems

Details Invading interfaces and blocking surfaces in high dimensional disordered systems Invading interfaces and blocking surfaces in high dimensional disordered systems

1997-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9702224v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12 pages, REVTeX with 2 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.1714

We study the high-dimensional properties of an invading front in a disordered medium with random pinning forces. We concentrate on interfaces described by bounded slope models belonging to the quenched KPZ universality class. We find a number of qualitative transitions in the behavior of the invasion process as dimensionality increases. In low dimensions $d<6$ the system is characterized by two different roughness exponents, the roughness of individual avalanches and the overall interface roughness. We use the similarity of the dynamics of an avalanche with the dynamics of invasion percolation to show that above $d=6$ avalanches become flat and the invasion is well described as an annealed process with correlated noise. In fact, for $d\geq5$ the overall roughness is the same as the annealed roughness. In very large dimensions, strong fluctuations begin to dominate the size distribution of avalanches, and this phenomenon is studied on the Cayley tree, which serves as an infinite dimensional limit. We present numerical simulations in which we measured the values of the critical exponents of the depinning transition, both in finite dimensional lattices with $d\leq6$ and on the Cayley tree, which support our qualitative predictions. We find that the critical exponents in $d=6$ are very close to their values on the Cayley tree, and we conjecture on this basis the existence of a further dimension, where mean field behavior is obtained.

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