Directed polymers on a disordered tree with a defect subtree

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AAB23CMaRDI QIDQ4639618zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Neal Madras, Gökhan Yıldırım

Publication date 9 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.08957, http://hdl.handle.net/11693/50129

zbMATH Keywords

free energydirected polymermicroscopic defectbulk disorder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We study the question of how the competition between $extitbulkdisorder$ and a $extitlocalizedmicroscopicdefect$ affects the macroscopic behavior of a system in the directed polymer context at the free energy level. We consider the directed polymer model on a disordered $d$-ary tree and represent the localized microscopic defect by modifying the disorder distribution at each vertex in a single path (branch), or in a subtree, of the tree. The polymer must choose between following the microscopic defect and finding the best branches through the bulk disorder. We describe three possible phases, called the $extitfullypinned,partiallypinned$ and $extitdepinned$ phases. When the microscopic defect is associated only with a single branch, we compute the free energy and the critical curve of the model, and show that the partially pinned phase does not occur. When the localized microscopic defect is associated with a non-disordered regular subtree of the disordered tree, the picture is more complicated. We prove that all three phases are non-empty below a critical temperature, and that the partially pinned phase disappears above the critical temperature.

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