Correlations between avalanches in the depinning dynamics of elastic interfaces.

We study the correlations between avalanches in the depinning dynamics of elastic interfaces driven on a random substrate. In the mean-field theory (the Brownian force model), it is known that the avalanches are uncorrelated. Here we obtain a simple field theory which describes the first deviations from this uncorrelated behavior in a ε=d_{c}-d expansion below the upper critical dimension d_{c} of the model.

Many-Body Delocalization as a Quantum Avalanche.

We propose a multiscale diagonalization scheme to study disordered one-dimensional chains, in particular, the transition between many-body localization (MBL) and the ergodic phase, expected to be governed by resonant spots. Our scheme focuses on the dichotomy of MBL versus validity of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. We show that a few natural assumptions imply that the system is localized with probability one at criticality.

Diffusion in time-dependent random media and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation.

Although time-dependent random media with short-range correlations lead to (possibly biased) normal tracer diffusion, anomalous fluctuations occur away from the most probable direction. This was pointed out recently in one-dimensional (1D) lattice random walks, where statistics related to the 1D Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class, i.e.

Universal correlations between shocks in the ground state of elastic interfaces in disordered media.

The ground state of an elastic interface in a disordered medium undergoes collective jumps upon variation of external parameters. These mesoscopic jumps are called shocks, or static avalanches. Submitting the interface to a parabolic potential centered at w, we study the avalanches which occur as w is varied.