Glassy Trapping of Manifolds in Nonpotential Random Flows
Glassy Trapping of Manifolds in Nonpotential Random Flows
We study the dynamics of polymers and elastic manifolds in nonpotential static random flows. Barriers are found to be generated from combined effects of elasticity, disorder, and thermal fluctuations. This leads to glassy trapping even in pure barrier-free divergenceless flows, with anomalously small response to an applied force. We find …