Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-04-03
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
10 pages, 10 figs, RevTeX, submitted to PRE
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.78.036202
We study the time evolution of perturbations in spatially extended chaotic systems in the presence of quenched disorder. We find that initially random perturbations tend to exponentially localize in space around static pinning centers that are selected by the particular configuration of disorder. The spatial structure of typical perturbations, $\delta u(x,t)$, is analyzed in terms of the Hopf-Cole transform, $h(x,t) \equiv\ln|\delta u(x,t)|$. Our analysis shows that the associated surface $h(x,t)$ self-organizes into a faceted structure with scale-invariant correlations. Scaling analysis of critical roughening exponents reveals that there are three different universality classes for error propagation in disordered chaotic systems that correspond to different symmetries of the underlying disorder. Our conclusions are based on numerical simulations of disordered lattices of coupled chaotic elements and equations for diffusion in random potentials. We propose a phenomenological stochastic field theory that gives some insights on the path for a generalization of these results for a broad class of disordered extended systems exhibiting space-time chaos.
López Juan M.
Rodriguez Miguel A.
Szendro Ivan G.
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