Anomalous scaling of heterogeneous elastic lines: a new picture from sample to sample fluctuations

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Autores principales: Bernard, Maximilien, Doussal, Pierre Le, Rosso, Alberto, Texier, Christophe
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Publicado: 2023
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author Bernard, Maximilien
Doussal, Pierre Le
Rosso, Alberto
Texier, Christophe
author_facet Bernard, Maximilien
Doussal, Pierre Le
Rosso, Alberto
Texier, Christophe
contents We study a discrete model of an heterogeneous elastic line with internal disorder, submitted to thermal fluctuations. The monomers are connected through random springs with independent and identically distributed elastic constants drawn from $p(k)\sim k^{μ-1}$ for $k\to0$. When $μ>1$, the scaling of the standard Edwards-Wilkinson model is recovered. When $μ<1$, the elastic line exhibits an anomalous scaling of the type observed in many growth models and experiments. Here we derive and use the exact expression for the exact probability distribution of the line shape at equilibrium, as well as the spectral properties of the matrix containing the random couplings, to fully characterize the sample to sample fluctuations. Our results lead to novel scaling predictions that partially disagree with previous works, but which are corroborated by numerical simulations. We also provide a novel interpretation of the anomalous scaling in terms of the abrupt jumps in the line's shape that dominate the average value of the observable.
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spellingShingle Anomalous scaling of heterogeneous elastic lines: a new picture from sample to sample fluctuations
Bernard, Maximilien
Doussal, Pierre Le
Rosso, Alberto
Texier, Christophe
Statistical Mechanics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Mathematical Physics
Probability
We study a discrete model of an heterogeneous elastic line with internal disorder, submitted to thermal fluctuations. The monomers are connected through random springs with independent and identically distributed elastic constants drawn from $p(k)\sim k^{μ-1}$ for $k\to0$. When $μ>1$, the scaling of the standard Edwards-Wilkinson model is recovered. When $μ<1$, the elastic line exhibits an anomalous scaling of the type observed in many growth models and experiments. Here we derive and use the exact expression for the exact probability distribution of the line shape at equilibrium, as well as the spectral properties of the matrix containing the random couplings, to fully characterize the sample to sample fluctuations. Our results lead to novel scaling predictions that partially disagree with previous works, but which are corroborated by numerical simulations. We also provide a novel interpretation of the anomalous scaling in terms of the abrupt jumps in the line's shape that dominate the average value of the observable.
title Anomalous scaling of heterogeneous elastic lines: a new picture from sample to sample fluctuations
topic Statistical Mechanics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Mathematical Physics
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11073