Anisotropic finite-size scaling of an elastic string at the depinning threshold in a random-periodic medium

Details Anisotropic finite-size scaling of an elastic string at the depinning threshold in a random-periodic medium Anisotropic finite-size scaling of an elastic string at the depinning threshold in a random-periodic medium

2010-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/1012.4507v1

Pap. Phys. 2, 020008 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

11 pages, 7 figures, Commentary from the reviewer available in Papers in Physics

Scientific paper

10.4279/pip.020008

We numerically study the geometry of a driven elastic string at its sample-dependent depinning threshold in random-periodic media. We find that the anisotropic finite-size scaling of the average square width $\bar{w^2}$ and of its associated probability distribution are both controlled by the ratio $k=M/L^{\zeta_{\mathrm{dep}}}$, where $\zeta_{\mathrm{dep}}$ is the random-manifold depinning roughness exponent, $L$ is the longitudinal size of the string and $M$ the transverse periodicity of the random medium. The rescaled average square width $\bar{w^2}/L^{2\zeta_{\mathrm{dep}}}$ displays a non-trivial single minimum for a finite value of $k$. We show that the initial decrease for small $k$ reflects the crossover at $k \sim 1$ from the random-periodic to the random-manifold roughness. The increase for very large $k$ implies that the increasingly rare critical configurations, accompanying the crossover to Gumbel critical-force statistics, display anomalous roughness properties: a transverse-periodicity scaling in spite that $\bar{w^2} \ll M$, and subleading corrections to the standard random-manifold longitudinal-size scaling. Our results are relevant to understanding the dimensional crossover from interface to particle depinning.

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