Non-Gaussian tail in the force distribution: a hallmark of correlated disorder in the host media of elastic objects.

ABSTRACT: Inferring the nature of disorder in the media where elastic objects are nucleated is of crucial importance for many applications but remains a challenging basic-science problem. Here we propose a method to discern whether weak-point or strong-correlated disorder dominates based on characterizing the distribution of the interaction forces between objects mapped in large fields-of-view. We illustrate our proposal with the case-study system of vortex structures nucleated in type-II superconductors with different pinning landscapes. Interaction force distributions are computed from individual vortex positions imaged in thousands-vortices fields-of-view in a two-orders-of-magnitude-wide vortex-density range. Vortex structures nucleated in point-disordered media present Gaussian distributions of

SUBMITTER: Sanchez JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7655960 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature