Statistical Topography of Glassy Interfaces

Preprint

8 September 1997

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9709092

Abstract

Statistical topography of two-dimensional interfaces in the presence of quenched disorder is studied utilizing combinatorial optimization algorithms. Finite-size scaling is used to measure geometrical exponents associated with contour loops and fully packed loops. We find that contour-loop exponents depend on the type of disorder (periodic ``vs'' non-periodic) and they satisfy scaling relations characteristic of self-affine rough surfaces. Fully packed loops on the other hand are unaffected by disorder with geometrical exponents that take on their pure values.

Keywords

STATISTICAL TOPOGRAPHY
INTERFACES STATISTICAL
GLASSY INTERFACES
ROUGH SURFACES
PACKED LOOPS
TOPOGRAPHY
ALGORITHMS
HAND

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Version 1, 1997-09-08, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 80 (1), 109.

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