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Phys. Rev. E 63, 026113 (2001) [5 pages]

Creep motion in a random-field Ising model

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L. Roters*, S. Lübeck, and K. D. Usadel
Theoretische Tieftemperaturphysik, Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg, 47048 Duisburg, Germany

Received 23 June 2000; published 24 January 2001

We analyze numerically a moving interface in the random-field Ising model which is driven by a magnetic field. Without thermal fluctuations the system displays a depinning phase transition, i.e., the interface is pinned below a certain critical value of the driving field. For finite temperatures the interface moves even for driving fields below the critical value. In this so-called creep regime the dependence of the interface velocity on the temperature is expected to obey an Arrhenius law. We investigate the details of this Arrhenius behavior in two and three dimensions and compare our results with predictions obtained from renormalization group approaches.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.63.026113
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.63.026113
PACS:
64.60.Ht, 68.35.Rh, 68.35.Ja, 75.10.Hk

*Email address: lars@thp.uni-duisburg.de

Email address: sven@thp.uni-duisburg.de

Email address: usadel@thp.uni-duisburg.de