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

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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 the interaction force components. In contrast, if the media have dilute and randomly-distributed correlated disorder, these distributions present non-Gaussian algebraically-decaying tails for large force magnitudes. We propose that detecting this deviation from the Gaussian behavior is a fingerprint of strong disorder, in our case originated from a dilute distribution of correlated pinning centers.
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hal-03032950 , version 1 (01-12-2020)

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Jazmín Aragón Sánchez, Gonzalo Rumi, Raúl Cortés Maldonado, Néstor René Cejas Bolecek, Joaquín Puig, et al.. Non-Gaussian tail in the force distribution: a hallmark of correlated disorder in the host media of elastic objects. Scientific Reports, 2020, 10 (1), pp.19452. ⟨10.1038/s41598-020-76529-w⟩. ⟨hal-03032950⟩
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