Title

Driven Depinning of Strongly Disordered Media and Anisotropic Mean-field Limits

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Alan Middleton, Syracuse UniversityFollow
M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
Karl Saunders, Syracuse University
J. M. Schwarz, Syracuse University

Document Type

Article

Date

2-14-2003

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

Extended systems driven through strong disorder are modeled generically using coarse-grained degrees of freedom that interact elastically in the directions parallel to the driving force and that slip along at least one of the directions transverse to the motion. A realization of such a model is a collection of elastic channels with transverse viscous couplings. In the infinite range limit this model has a tricritical point separating a region where the depinning is continuous, in the universality class of elastic depinning, from a region where depinning is hysteretic. Many of the collective transport models discussed in the literature are special cases of the generic model.

Additional Information

4 pages, 2 figures More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302275

Recommended Citation

Middleton, Alan; Marchetti, M. Cristina; Saunders, Karl; and Schwarz, J. M., "Driven Depinning of Strongly Disordered Media and Anisotropic Mean-field Limits" (2003). Physics - All Scholarship. 190.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/190

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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