Determination of the universality class of crystal plasticity

Abstract

Although scaling phenomena have long been documented in crystalline plasticity, the universality class has been difficult to identify due to the rarity of avalanche events, which require large system sizes and long times in order to accurately measure scaling exponents and functions. Here we present comprehensive simulations of two-dimensional dislocation dynamics under shear, using finite-size scaling to extract scaling exponents and the avalanche profile scaling function from time-resolved measurements of slip-avalanches. Our results provide compelling evidence that both the static and dynamic universality classes are consistent with the mean-field interface depinning model.

6 pages, 4 figures. Figure 4 inset has been corrected as compared to the EPL publication. We thank Michael Zaiser for bringing its incorrect caption to our attention. The correction leaves all results unaffected

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