On dissipation in crackling noise systems

Abstract

We consider the amount of energy dissipated during individual avalanches at the depinning transition of disordered and athermal elastic systems. Analytical progress is possible in the case of the Alessandro-Beatrice-Bertotti-Montorsi (ABBM) model for Barkhausen noise, due to an exact mapping between the energy released in an avalanche and the area below a Brownian path until its first zero-crossing. Scaling arguments and examination of an extended mean-field model with internal structure show that dissipation relates to a critical exponent recently found in a study of the rounding of the depinning transition in presence of activated dynamics. A new numerical method to compute the dynamic exponent at depinning in terms of blocked and marginally stable configurations is proposed, and a kind of `dissipative anomaly'- with potentially important consequences for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics- is discussed. We conclude that for depinning systems the size of an avalanche does not constitute by itself a univocal measure of the energy dissipated.

arXiv comment7 pages, 3 figures, final accepted version

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