Enhanced interface repulsion from quenched hard-wall randomness

DOI10.1007/S004400200223MaRDI QIDQ1871659zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniela Bertacchi, Giambattista Giacomin

Publication date 4 May 2003

Published in Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0112225

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian fieldslarge deviationsrandom walksharmonic crystalquenched and annealed models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gaussian processes (60G15) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24)

Abstract: We consider the harmonic crystal on the d-dimensional lattice, d larger or equal to 3, that is the centered Gaussian field $phi$ with covariance given by the Green function of the simple random walk on $Z^d$. Our main aim is to obtain quantitative information on the repulsion phenomenon that arises when we condition the field to be larger than an IID field $sigma$ (which is also independent of $phi$), for every x in a large region $$, with N a positive integer and $Dsubset{R}^d$. We are mostly motivated by results for given typical realizations of the $sigma$ (quenched set-up), since the conditioned harmonic crystal may be seen as a model for an equilibrium interface, constrained not to go below a inhomogeneous substrate that acts as a hard wall. We consider various types of substrate and we observe that the interface is pushed away from the wall much more than in the case of a flat wall as soon as the upward tail of $sigma$ is heavier than Gaussian, while essentially no effect is observed if the tail is sub--Gaussian. In the critical case, that is the one of approximately Gaussian tail, the interplay of the two sources of randomness, $phi$ and $sigma$, leads to an enhanced repulsion effect of additive type.

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