The functional renormalization group treatment of disordered systems, a review

DOI10.1007/S00023-003-0940-ZzbMATH Open1076.82019arXivcond-mat/0302322OpenAlexW2950357177MaRDI QIDQ1780197FDOQ1780197

Authors: K. J. Wiese 

Publication date: 7 June 2005

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review current progress in the functional renormalization group treatment of disordered systems. After an elementary introduction into the phenomenology, we show why in the context of disordered systems a functional renormalization group treatment is necessary, contrary to pure systems, where renormalization of a single coupling constant is sufficient. This leads to a disorder distribution, which after a finite renomalization becomes non-analytic, thus overcoming the predictions of the seemingly exact dimensional reduction. We discuss, how a renormalizable field theory can be constructed, even beyond 1-loop order. We then discuss an elastic manifold imbedded in N dimensions, and give the exact solution for N -> oo. This is compared to predictions of the Gaussian replica variational ansatz, using replica symmetry breaking. We finally discuss depinning, both isotropic and anisotropic, and the scaling function for the width distribution of an interface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302322

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zbMATH Keywords

dimensional reductionfunctional renormalization groupdepinning transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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