학술논문
Asymmetric Roughness of Elastic Interfaces at the Depinning Threshold
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 175701 (2022)
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Abstract
Roughness of driven elastic interfaces in random media is typically understood to be characterized by a single roughness exponent $\zeta$. We show that at the depinning threshold, due to symmetry breaking caused by the direction of the driving force, elastic interfaces with local, long-range and mean-field elasticity exhibit asymmetric roughness. It is manifested as a skewed distribution of the local interface heights, and can be quantified by using detrended fluctuation analysis to compute a spectrum of local, segment-level scaling exponents. The asymmetry is observed as approximately linear dependence of the local scaling exponents on the difference of the segment height from the mean interface height.
Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Material containing 3 pages, 4 figures
Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Material containing 3 pages, 4 figures