Disordered free fermions and the Cardy-Ostlund fixed line at low temperature

作者:Le Doussal Pierre*; Schehr Gregory
来源:Physical Review B, 2007, 75(18): 184401.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.75.184401

摘要

Using a functional renormalization group (RG) method, we reexamine the glass phase of the two-dimensional random-field sine Gordon model. It is described by a line of fixed points with a super-roughening amplitude [u(0)-u(r)](2)similar to A(T)ln(2)r as temperature T is varied. By speculating that this line is identical for all T to the one found in disordered free-fermion models via exact results from "nearly conformal" field theory, one would predict A(T=0)=0, contradicting numerics. We point out that this result may be related to failure of dimensional reduction, and that a functional RG method incorporating higher harmonics and nonanalytic operators predicts a nonzero A(T=0) which compares reasonably well with numerics.

  • 出版日期2007-5