Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2011-07-29
Phys. Rev. E 84, 041131 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
14 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.84.041131
The distribution of the maximal relative height (MRH) of self-affine one-dimensional elastic interfaces in a random potential is studied. We analyze the ground state configuration at zero driving force, and the critical configuration exactly at the depinning threshold, both for the random-manifold and random-periodic universality classes. These configurations are sampled by exact numerical methods, and their MRH distributions are compared with those with the same roughness exponent and boundary conditions, but produced by independent Fourier modes with normally distributed amplitudes. Using Pickands' theorem we derive an exact analytical description for the right tail of the latter. After properly rescaling the MRH distributions we find that corrections from the Gaussian independent modes approximation are in general small, as previously found for the average width distribution of depinning configurations. In the large size limit all corrections are finite except for the ground-state in the random-periodic class whose MRH distribution becomes, for periodic boundary conditions, indistinguishable from the Airy distribution. We find that the MRH distributions are, in general, sensitive to changes of boundary conditions.
Bustingorry Sebastian
Kolton Alejandro B.
Rambeau Joachim
Schehr Gregory
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