There is striking evidence that the dynamics of the Earth crust is controlled by a wide variety
of mutually dependent mechanisms acting at different spatial and temporal scales. The …

Abstract Domain walls in magnets, vortex lattices in superconductors, contact lines at
depinning, and many other systems can be modeled as an elastic system subject to …

We present the experimental and numerical studies of a two-dimensional sheared
amorphous material composed of bidisperse photoelastic disks. We analyze the statistics of …

We study avalanches in a model for a planar crack propagating in a disordered medium.
Due to long-range interactions, avalanches are formed by a set of spatially disconnected …

The thermally activated creep motion of an elastic interface weakly driven on a disordered
landscape is one of the best examples of glassy universal dynamics. Its understanding has …

We compare rain event size distributions derived from measurements in climatically different
regions, which we find to be well approximated by power laws of similar exponents over …

In many complex systems a continuous input of energy over time can be suddenly relaxed in
the form of avalanches. Conventional avalanche models disregard the possibility of internal …

We provide the first quantitative comparison between Barkhausen noise experiments and
recent predictions from the theory of avalanches for pinned interfaces, both in and beyond …

In situ TEM is by far the most commonly used microscopy method for imaging dislocations,
ie, line-like defects in crystalline materials. However, quantitative image analysis so far was …

We review the theoretical description of the random field Ising and O (N) models obtained
from the functional renormalization group, either in its nonperturbative implementation or, in …