Existence of random gradient states

DOI10.1214/11-AAP808MaRDI QIDQ453252zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Codina Cotar, Christof Külske

Publication date 19 September 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4375, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1344614207

zbMATH Keywords

disordered systemsgradient Gibbs measuresGreen's functionrandom interfacessurface tension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Processes in random environments (60K37) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We consider two versions of random gradient models. In model A the interface feels a bulk term of random fields while in model B the disorder enters through the potential acting on the gradients. It is well known that for gradient models without disorder there are no Gibbs measures in infinite-volume in dimension d=2, while there are "gradient Gibbs measures" describing an infinite-volume distribution for the gradients of the field, as was shown by Funaki and Spohn. Van Enter and K"{u}lske proved that adding a disorder term as in model A prohibits the existence of such gradient Gibbs measures for general interaction potentials in $d=2$. In the present paper we prove the existence of shift-covariant gradient Gibbs measures with a given tilt $uinmathbb{R}^d$ for model A when $dgeq3$ and the disorder has mean zero, and for model B when $dgeq1$. When the disorder has nonzero mean in model A, there are no shift-covariant gradient Gibbs measures for $dge3$. We also prove similar results of existence/nonexistence of the surface tension for the two models and give the characteristic properties of the respective surface tensions.

Review text

The authors consider two versions of random gradient models: in model \(A\), the interface feels a bulk term of random fields, while, in model \(B\), disorder enters through the potential acting on the gradients, which are prototypical ways to add randomness preserving the gradient structure. These models can be regarded as modeling two different types of impurities, one affecting the interface height, the other affecting the interface gradient. A main question in interface models is whether the fluctuations of an interface that is restricted to a finite-volume will remain bounded when the volume tends to infinity, so that there is an infinite-volume Gibbs measure or gradient Gibbs measure describing a localized interface. The authors prove the existence of shift-covariant gradient Gibbs measures with a given tilt \(u\in\mathbb R^d\) for model \(A\) when \(d\geq 3\) and the disorder has mean zero, and for model \(B\) when \(d\geq1\). Also, when the disorder has nonzero mean in model \(A\), there are no shift-covariant gradient Gibbs measures for \(d\geq 3\).

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