Abstract Using Langevin simulations, we have investigated numerically the depinning dynamics of driven two-dimensional colloids subject to the randomly distributed point-like pinning centres. With increasing strength of pinning, we find a crossover from elastic to plastic depinnings, accompanied by an order to disorder transition of state and a substantial increase in the depinning force. In the elastic regime, no peaks are found in the differential curves of the velocity－force dependence (VFD) and the transverse motion is almost none. In addition, the scaling relationship between velocity and force is found to be valid above depinning. However, when one enters the plastic regime, a peak appears in the differential curves of VFD and transverse diffusion occurs above depinning. Furthermore, history dependence is found in the plastic regime.
Received: 17 October 2003
Revised: 01 December 2003
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Fund: Project supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No NKBRSF-G19990646), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China, and the Scientific Research Foundation of State Education Ministry for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars.
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Chen Jiang-Xing (陈江星), Feng Chun-Mu (冯春木), Wang You-Mei (汪友梅), Cao Yi-Gang (曹义刚), Jiao Zheng-Kuan (焦正宽) Depinning dynamics of driven colloids with random pinning: a numerical study 2004 Chinese Physics 13 778
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