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Elastic interfaces display scale-invariant geometrical fluctuations at sufficiently large lengthscales. Their asymptotic static roughness then follows a power-law behavior, whose associated exponent provides a robust signature of the universality class to which they belong. The associated prefactor has instead a nonuniversal amplitude fixed by the microscopic interplay between thermal fluctuations and disorder, usually hidden below experimental resolution. Here we compute numerically the roughness of a one-dimensional elastic interface subject to both thermal fluctuations and a quenched disorder with a finite correlation length. We evidence the existence of a power-law regime at short lengthscales. We determine the corresponding exponent ζdis and find compelling numerical evidence that, contrarily to available analytic predictions, one has ζdis
François Gallaire, Alessandro Bongarzone, Francesco Viola