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Phys. Rev. E 58, R5217–R5220 (1998)

Disorder, order, and domain wall roughening in the two-dimensional random field Ising model

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E. T. Seppälä1, V. Petäjä1, and M. J. Alava2,1
1Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Physics, P.O. Box 1100, 02015 HUT, Finland
2Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

Received 31 August 1998; published in the issue dated November 1998

Ground states and domain walls are investigated with exact combinatorial optimization in two-dimensional random field Ising magnets. The ground states break into domains above a length scale that depends exponentially on the random field strength squared. For weak disorder, this paramagnetic structure has remnant long-range order of the percolation type. The domain walls are super-rough in ordered systems with a roughness exponent ζ close to 6/5. The interfaces exhibit rare fluctuations and multiscaling reminiscent of some models of kinetic roughening and hydrodynamic turbulence.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.58.R5217
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.58.R5217
PACS:
64.60.Cn, 05.50.+q