Asymmetric Roughness of Elastic Interfaces at the Depinning Threshold

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Abstract

Roughness of driven elastic interfaces in random media is typically understood to be characterized by a single roughness exponent ζ. We show that at the depinning threshold, due to symmetry breaking caused by the direction of the driving force, elastic interfaces with local, long-range, and mean-field elasticity exhibit asymmetric roughness. It is manifested as a skewed distribution of the local interface heights, and can be quantified by using detrended fluctuation analysis to compute a spectrum of local, segment-level scaling exponents. The asymmetry is observed as approximately linear dependence of the local scaling exponents on the difference of the segment height from the mean interface height.

Original languageEnglish
Article number175701
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume129
Issue number17
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Oct 2022
Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

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  • Publication forum level 3

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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