Intermittence and roughening of periodic elastic media

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© 2001 American Physical Society (APS). This is the accepted version of the following article: Seppälä, E. T. & Alava, Mikko J. & Duxbury, P. M. 2001. Intermittence and roughening of periodic elastic media. Physical Review E. Volume 63, Issue 3. 036126/1-7. ISSN 1539-3755 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physreve.63.036126, which has been published in final form at http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.63.036126.
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School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2001
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en
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036126/1-7
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Physical Review E, Volume 63, Issue 3
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We analyze intermittence and roughening of an elastic interface or domain wall pinned in a periodic potential, in the presence of random-bond disorder in 1+1 and 2+1 dimensions. Though the ensemble average behavior is smooth, the typical behavior of a large sample is intermittent, and does not self-average to a smooth behavior. Instead, large fluctuations occur in the mean location of the interface and the onset of interface roughening is via an extensive fluctuation which leads to a jump in the roughness of order λ, the period of the potential. Analytical arguments based on extreme statistics are given for the number of the minima of the periodicity visited by the interface and for the roughening crossover, which is confirmed by extensive exact ground state calculations.
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interface and surface thermodynamics, random magnets, optimization, interface structure and roughness
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Seppälä, E. T. & Alava, Mikko J. & Duxbury, P. M. 2001. Intermittence and roughening of periodic elastic media. Physical Review E. Volume 63, Issue 3. 036126/1-7. ISSN 1539-3755 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physreve.63.036126.