Anisotropic velocity statistics of topological defects under shear flow

Details Anisotropic velocity statistics of topological defects under shear flow Anisotropic velocity statistics of topological defects under shear flow

2012-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/1201.5758v1

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Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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We report numerical results on the velocity statistics of topological defects during the dynamics of phase ordering and non-relaxational evolution assisted by an external shear ow. We propose a numerically efficient tracking method for finding the position and velocity of defects, and apply it to vortices in a uniform field and dislocations in anisotropic stripe patterns. During relaxational dynamics, the distribution function of the velocity fuctuations is characterized by a dynamical scaling with a scaling function that has a robust algebraic tail with an inverse cube power law. This is characteristic to defects of codimension two, e.g. point defects in two dimensions and filaments in three dimensions, regardless of whether the motion is isotropic (as for vortices) or highly anisotropic (as for dislocations). However, the anisotropic dislocation motion leads to anisotropic statistical properties when the interaction between defects and their motion is in infuenced by the presence of an external shear flow transverse to the stripe orientation.

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