Directed polymers on a Cayley tree with spatially correlated disorder

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/31/46/007zbMATH Open0953.82028arXivcond-mat/9809330OpenAlexW3103120908MaRDI QIDQ3836118FDOQ3836118

Publication date: 6 December 1999

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we consider directed walks on a tree with a fixed branching ratio K at a finite temperature T. We consider the case where each site (or link) is assigned a random energy uncorrelated in time, but correlated in the transverse direction i.e. within the shell. In this paper we take the transverse distance to be the hierarchical ultrametric distance, but other possibilities are discussed. We compute the free energy for the case of quenched disorder and show that there is a fundamental difference between the case of short range spatial correlations of the disorder which behaves similarly to the non-correlated case considered previously by Derrida and Spohn and the case of long range correlations which has a totally different overlap distribution which approaches a single delta function about q=1 for large L, where L is the length of the walk. In the latter case the free energy is not extensive in L for the intermediate and also relevant range of L values, although in the true thermodynamic limit extensivity is restored. We identify a crossover temperature which grows with L, and whenever T<T_c(L) the system is always in the low temperature phase. Thus in the case of long-ranged correlation as opposed to the short-ranged case a phase transition is absent.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9809330

zbMATH Keywords

free energy quenched disorder directed polymers crossover temperature directed walks on a tree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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