Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 66, Number 6, June 2004
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Page(s) | 778 - 784 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-10259-y | |
Published online | 01 June 2004 |
Entanglement transition of elastic lines in a strongly disordered environment
1
Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Physics P.O. Box 1100, 02015 HUT, Finland
2
SMC-INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università “La Sapienza” P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
3
Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes - 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
Received:
8
December
2003
Accepted:
11
April
2004
We investigate by exact optimization the geometrical properties of three-dimensional elastic line systems with point disorder and hard-core repulsion. The line “forests” become entangled due to increasing line wandering as the system height is increased, at fixed line density. There is a transition height at which a cluster of pairwise entangled lines spans the system, transverse to average line orientation. Numerical evidence implies that the phenomenon is in the ordinary percolation universality class. Similar results are obtained for an ensemble of flux lines obeying random-walk dynamics.
PACS: 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion / 74.25.Qt – Vortex lattices, flux pinning, flux creep / 74.62.Dh – Effects of crystal defects, doping and substitution
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