The rounding of the phase transition for disordered pinning with stretched exponential tails

DOI10.1214/16-AAP1220zbMATH Open1370.60190arXiv1405.6875OpenAlexW2963432748WikidataQ115517802 ScholiaQ115517802MaRDI QIDQ2013573FDOQ2013573

Hubert Lacoin

Publication date: 8 August 2017

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The presence of frozen-in or quenched disorder in a system can often modify the nature of its phase transition. A particular instance of this phenomenon is the so-called rounding effect: it has been shown in many cases that the free-energy curve of the disordered system at its critical point is smoother than that of the homogenous one. In particular some disordered systems do not allow first-order transitions. We study this phenomenon for the pinning of a renewal with stretched-exponential tails on a defect line (the distribution $K$ of the renewal increments satisfies $K(n)sim{c}_{K}exp(-n^{alpha}),$ $alphain(0,1)$) which has a first order transition when disorder is not present. We show that the critical behavior of the disordered system depends on the value of $alpha$: when $alpha>1/2$ the transition remains first order, whereas the free-energy diagram is smoothed for $alphale1/2$. Furthermore we show that the rounding effect is getting stronger when $alpha$ diminishes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6875

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionHarris criteriondisordered pinningrounding effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Processes in random environments (60K37) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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• Exactly solvable model with an unusual phase transition: the rolling transition of a pinned Gaussian chain
• PINNING ON A DEFECT LINE: CHARACTERIZATION OF MARGINAL DISORDER RELEVANCE AND SHARP ASYMPTOTICS FOR THE CRITICAL POINT SHIFT

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