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Front propagation in random media: From extremal to activated dynamics

Rune Skoe, Damien Vandembroucq, Stephane Roux

cond-mat.dis-nnarXiv:cond-mat/0203158

Abstract

Front propagation in a random environment is studied close to the depinning threshold. At zero temperature we show that the depinning force distribution exhibits a universal behavior. This property is used to estimate the velocity of the front at very low temperature. We obtain a Arrhenius behavior with a prefactor depending on the temperature as a power law. These results are supported by numerical simulations.

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