Duemmer Olaf, Krauth Werner
CNRS-Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Jun;71(6 Pt 1):061601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.061601. Epub 2005 Jun 16.
We analyze the harmonic elastic string driven through a continuous random potential above the depinning threshold. The velocity exponent beta = 0.33(2) is calculated. We observe a crossover in the roughness exponent zeta from the critical value 1.26 to the asymptotic (large force) value of 0.5. We calculate directly the velocity correlation function and the corresponding correlation length exponent nu = 1.29(5), which obeys the scaling relation nu = 1/(2 - zeta), and agrees with nu(FS), the finite-size-scaling exponent of fluctuations in the critical force. Surprisingly, the velocity correlation function is nonuniversal at short distances.