Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2009-05-29
J. Stat. Mech., P08022 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
23 pages, 11 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-5468/2009/08/P08022
Domain walls, optimal droplets and disorder chaos at zero temperature are studied numerically for the solid-on-solid model on a random substrate. It is shown that the ensemble of random curves represented by the domain walls obeys Schramm's left passage formula with kappa=4 whereas their fractal dimension is d_s=1.25, and therefore is NOT described by "Stochastic-Loewner-Evolution" (SLE). Optimal droplets with a lateral size between L and 2L have the same fractal dimension as domain walls but an energy that saturates at a value of order O(1) for L->infinity such that arbitrarily large excitations exist which cost only a small amount of energy. Finally it is demonstrated that the sensitivity of the ground state to small changes of order delta in the disorder is subtle: beyond a cross-over length scale L_delta ~ 1/delta the correlations of the perturbed ground state with the unperturbed ground state, rescaled by the roughness, are suppressed and approach zero logarithmically.
Karrenbauer Andreas
Rieger Heiko
Schehr Gregory
Schwarz Karlheinz
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