Renewal sequences, disordered potentials, and pinning phenomena

zbMATH Open1194.82042arXiv0807.4285MaRDI QIDQ3567896FDOQ3567896

Authors: Giambattista Giacomin Edit this on Wikidata

Publication date: 17 June 2010

Abstract: We give an overview of the state of the art of the analysis of disordered models of pinning on a defect line. This class of models includes a number of well known and much studied systems (like polymer pinning on a defect line, wetting of interfaces on a disordered substrate and the Poland-Scheraga model of DNA denaturation). A remarkable aspect is that, in absence of disorder, all the models in this class are exactly solvable and they display a localization-delocalization transition that one understands in full detail. Moreover the behavior of such systems near criticality is controlled by a parameter and one observes, by tuning the parameter, the full spectrum of critical behaviors, ranging from first order to infinite order transitions. This is therefore an ideal set-up in which to address the question of the effect of disorder on the phase transition,notably on critical properties. We will review recent results that show that the physical prediction that goes under the name of Harris criterion is indeed fully correct for pinning models. Beyond summarizing the results, we will sketch most of the arguments of proof.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4285

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zbMATH Keywords

renewal processesdisorderdirected polymersHarris criterionpinning modelsfractional moment estimatesrare-stretch strategiesfinite size estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) 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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