Title

Models of Plastic Depinning of Driven Disordered Systems

Author(s)/Creator(s)

M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

2-2-2008

Keywords

condensed matter; soft condensed matter

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

Two classes of models of driven disordered systems that exhibit history-dependent dynamics are discussed. The first class incorporates local inertia in the dynamics via nonmonotonic stress transfer between adjacent degrees of freedom. The second class allows for proliferation of topological defects due to the interplay of strong disorder and drive. In mean field theory both models exhibit a tricritical point as a function of disorder strength. At weak disorder depinning is continuous and the sliding state is unique. At strong disorder depinning is discontinuous and hysteretic.

Additional Information

This manuscript is from arXiv.org, for further details look at http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503639

Recommended Citation

arXiv:cond-mat/0503639v1

Source

harvested from arXiv.org

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