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Frozen Disorder in a Driven System
Physical Review Letters (1996)
  • Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • K. E. Bassler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Abstract

We investigate the effects of quenched disorder on the universal properties of a randomly driven Ising lattice gas. The Hamiltonian fixed point of the pure system becomes unstable in the presence of a quenched local bias, giving rise to a new fixed point which controls a novel universality class. We determine the associated scaling forms of correlation and response functions, quoting critical exponents to two-loop order in an expansion around the upper critical dimension dc=5.

Publication Date
October 21, 1996
Publisher Statement
Copyright 1996 American Physical Society. Posted with permission.
Citation Information
Beate Schmittmann and K. E. Bassler. "Frozen Disorder in a Driven System" Physical Review Letters Vol. 77 (1996)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/beate_schmittmann/22/