Title

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

Author(s)/Creator(s)

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

Document Type

Article

Date

2-2-2008

Keywords

condensed matter, disordered systems and neural networks, superconductivity

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

This manuscript is from arXiv.org, for furthur information see http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302275

Recommended Citation

arXiv:cond-mat/0302275v1

Source

harvested from arXiv.org

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