Disorder in non-equilibrium models
Disorder in non-equilibrium models
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非平衡模型中的无序
DOI:
10.1088/0953-8984/14/7/306
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发表时间:
2002
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通讯作者:
R. Stinchcombe
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作者:
R. Stinchcombe
An overview is presented of non-equilibrium systems in the presence of disorder, which typically strongly affects their behaviour. The examples considered here are those for which most progress is currently being made, namely low-dimensional collective models of the lattice-based exclusion type with substitutional disorder. Discussions are given of such effects as localization, and of disorder-induced crossovers to new critical or singular behaviour at steady state non-equilibrium transitions, and to new asymptotic or critical dynamics. Mappings to disordered quantum spin systems are used to provide some exact results (exploiting Goldstone symmetries or free fermion equivalences) and to introduce non-equilibrium/disorder effects analogous to Griffiths phases and McCoy-Wu singularities. Among other topics also discussed here are criteria for crossovers, and non-equilibrium transitions and dynamics on diluted and possibly scale-invariant backgrounds. As well as mappings, direct approaches of various sorts are used, such as mean field methods, and scaling procedures typically scaling a disorder distribution. Scaling for the non-equilibrium dynamics is relatively simple and very effective when the equations of motion are linear or linearizable by certain transformations presented here. The current situation regarding scaling approaches to the more resistant non-linear cases is briefly discussed.