Phase transitions for spatially extended pinning

DOI10.1007/S00440-021-01068-YzbMATH Open1495.60097arXiv2006.00510OpenAlexW3172244824MaRDI QIDQ2052702FDOQ2052702

Authors: Francesco Caravenna, F. den Hollander 

Publication date: 26 November 2021

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

Abstract: We consider a directed polymer of length $N$ interacting with a linear interface. The monomers carry i.i.d. random charges $(omeg{a}_i{)}_{i=1}^N$ taking values in $mathbbR$ with mean zero and variance one. Each monomer $i$ contributes an energy $$ to the interaction Hamiltonian, where $S_{i}inmathbbZ$ is the height of monomer $i$ with respect to the interface, $varphi:mathbbZo[0,infty)$ is the interaction potential, $$ is the inverse temperature, and $hinmathbbR$ is the charge bias parameter. The configurations of the polymer are weighted according to the Gibbs measure associated with the interaction Hamiltonian, where the reference measure is given by a Markov chain on $mathbbZ$. We study both the quenched and the annealed free energy per monomer in the limit as $Noinfty$. We show that each exhibits a phase transition along a critical curve in the $$-plane, separating a localized phase (where the polymer stays close to the interface) from a delocalized phase (where the polymer wanders away from the interface). We derive variational formulas for the critical curves and we obtain upper and lower bounds on the quenched critical curve in terms of the annealed critical curve. In addition, for the special case where the reference measure is given by a Bessel random walk, we derive the scaling limit of the annealed free energy as $$ in three different regimes for the tail exponent of $varphi$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00510

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionfree energylarge deviation principlecritical curvecharged polymersvariational representationspatially extended pinning

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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