Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2011-11-14
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
33 pages, 24 figures
Scientific paper
We study the energy minimization problem for an elastic interface in a random potential plus a quadratic well. As the position of the well is varied, the ground state undergoes jumps, called shocks or static avalanches. We introduce an efficient and systematic method to compute the statistics of avalanche sizes and manifold displacements. The tree-level calculation, i.e. mean-field limit, is obtained by solving a saddle-point equation. Graphically, it can be interpreted as a the sum of all tree graphs. The 1-loop corrections are computed using results from the functional renormalization group. At the upper critical dimension the shock statistics is described by the Brownian Force model (BFM), the static version of the so-called ABBM model in the non-equilibrium context of depinning. This model can itself be treated exactly in any dimension and its shock statistics is that of a Levy process. Contact is made with classical results in probability theory on the Burgers equation with Brownian initial conditions. In particular we obtain a functional extension of an evolution equation introduced by Carraro and Duchon, which recursively constructs the tree diagrams in the field theory.
Doussal Pierre Le
Wiese Kay Joerg
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