Title

Thermal Rounding of the Charge Density Wave Depinning Transition

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Alan Middleton, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

5-20-1992

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

The rounding of the charge density wave depinning transition by thermal noise is examined. Hops by localized modes over small barriers trigger ``avalanches'', resulting in a creep velocity much larger than that expected from comparing thermal energies with typical barriers. For a field equal to the $T=0$ depinning field, the creep velocity is predicted to have a {\em power-law} dependence on the temperature $T$; numerical computations confirm this result. The predicted order of magnitude of the thermal rounding of the depinning transition is consistent with rounding seen in experiment.

Additional Information

12 pages + 3 Postscript figures More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9205011

Recommended Citation

Middleton, Alan, "Thermal Rounding of the Charge Density Wave Depinning Transition" (1992). Physics - All Scholarship. 209.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/209

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

Creative Commons License

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