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Topics in the mathematics of disordered media

Abstract

This thesis is devoted to the mathematical study of effects of disorder in various physical systems. We start with three stochastic homogenization problems in connection with static classical physics questions. First, motivated by the rigorous derivation of nonlinear elasticity from the statistical physics of polymer-chain networks, we establish the existence of effective properties for randomly heterogeneous hyperelastic materials under general growth assumptions. Second, in the simplest linearized setting, we investigate the so-called Clausius-Mossotti formulas for the effective properties of dilute two-phase dispersed media: we provide the first general and rigorous proof of these formulas, as well as an extension to higher orders. Third, again for linearized models, we propose to study deviations with respect to effective properties and we establish the first general theory of fluctuations in stochastic homogenization. In the second part of this thesis, the focus is on the interplay between disorder and interactions, and more precisely we study the dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau vortices in 2D type-II superconductors in the presence of several impurities. Although a complete mathematical understanding of the complex glassy properties of such systems seems out of reach, we rigorously establish the mean-field dynamics of a large number of vortices, and we investigate the homogenization of the fluid-like mean-field equations and their stick-slip properties.

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