Strong disorder renewal approach to DNA denaturation and wetting: typical and large deviation properties of the free energy

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA53F8zbMATH Open1457.82184arXiv1611.00501OpenAlexW2547979945MaRDI QIDQ3302840FDOQ3302840

Authors: Cécile Monthus 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For the DNA denaturation transition in the presence of random contact energies, or equivalently the disordered wetting transition, we introduce a Strong Disorder Renewal Approach to construct the optimal contacts in each disordered sample of size $L$. The transition is found to be of infinite order, with a correlation length diverging with the essential singularity $lnxi(T)propto|T-T_c{|}^{-1}$. In the critical region, we analyze the statistics over samples of the free-energy density $f_L$ and of the contact density, which is the order parameter of the transition. At the critical point, both decay as a power-law of the length $L$ but remain distributed, in agreement with the general phenomenon of lack of self-averaging at random critical points. We also obtain that for any real $q>0$, the moment $overline{Z}_L^q$ of order $q$ of the partition function at the critical point is dominated by some exponentially rare samples displaying a finite free-energy density, i.e. by the large deviation sector of the probability distribution of the free-energy density.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00501

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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