Driven interfaces in random media at finite temperature : is there an anomalous zero-velocity phase at small external force ?

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2008-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/0803.4125v3

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041133 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

v3=final version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041133

The motion of driven interfaces in random media at finite temperature $T$ and small external force $F$ is usually described by a linear displacement $h_G(t) \sim V(F,T) t$ at large times, where the velocity vanishes according to the creep formula as $V(F,T) \sim e^{-K(T)/F^{\mu}}$ for $F \to 0$. In this paper, we question this picture on the specific example of the directed polymer in a two dimensional random medium. We have recently shown (C. Monthus and T. Garel, arxiv:0802.2502) that its dynamics for F=0 can be analyzed in terms of a strong disorder renormalization procedure, where the distribution of renormalized barriers flows towards some "infinite disorder fixed point". In the present paper, we obtain that for small $F$, this "infinite disorder fixed point" becomes a "strong disorder fixed point" with an exponential distribution of renormalized barriers. The corresponding distribution of trapping times then only decays as a power-law $P(\tau) \sim 1/\tau^{1+\alpha}$, where the exponent $\alpha(F,T)$ vanishes as $\alpha(F,T) \propto F^{\mu}$ as $F \to 0$. Our conclusion is that in the small force region $\alpha(F,T)<1$, the divergence of the averaged trapping time $\bar{\tau}=+\infty$ induces strong non-self-averaging effects that invalidate the usual creep formula obtained by replacing all trapping times by the typical value. We find instead that the motion is only sub-linearly in time $h_G(t) \sim t^{\alpha(F,T)}$, i.e. the asymptotic velocity vanishes V=0. This analysis is confirmed by numerical simulations of a directed polymer with a metric constraint driven in a traps landscape. We moreover obtain that the roughness exponent, which is governed by the equilibrium value $\zeta_{eq}=2/3$ up to some large scale, becomes equal to $\zeta=1$ at the largest scales.

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