Annealed scaling for a charged polymer

DOI10.1007/S11040-016-9205-1zbMATH Open1413.60097arXiv1509.02204OpenAlexW3101121112MaRDI QIDQ1663338FDOQ1663338

Authors: Francesco Caravenna, Nicolas Pétrélis, F. den Hollander, Julien Poisat 

Publication date: 21 August 2018

Published in: Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study an undirected polymer chain living on the 1-dimensional integer lattice and carrying i.i.d. random charges. Each self-intersection of the polymer contributes to the Hamiltonian an energy that is equal to the product of the charges of the two monomers that meet. The joint law for the polymer chain and the charges is given by the Gibbs distribution associated with the Hamiltonian. The focus is on the emph{annealed free energy} per monomer in the limit as polymer length diverges. We derive a emph{spectral representation} for the free energy and we exhibit a critical curve in the parameter plane of charge bias versus inverse temperature separating a emph{ballistic phase} from a emph{subballistic phase}. The phase transition is emph{first order}. We prove large deviation principles for the laws of the empirical speed and the empirical charge, and derive a spectral representation for the associated rate functions. Interestingly, in both phases both rate functions exhibit emph{flat pieces}, which correspond to an inhomogeneous strategy for the polymer to realise a large deviation. The large deviation principles lead to laws of large numbers and central limit theorems. We identify the scaling behavior of the critical curve for small and large charge bias and also the scaling behavior of the free energy for small charge bias and small inverse temperature. Both are linked to an associated emph{Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem}. A key tool in our analysis is the Ray-Knight formula for the local times of 1-dimensional simple random walk. It is used to derive a emph{closed form expression} for the generating function of the annealed partition function and to derive the spectral representation for the free energy. What happens for the emph{quenched free energy} remains open. We state two modest results and raise a few questions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02204

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionlarge deviationsscalingcharged polymerballistic vs. subballistic phase

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Processes in random environments (60K37) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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