Conformal invariance and its breaking in a stochastic model of a fluctuating interface

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2006/08/P08003MaRDI QIDQ5239299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. C. Alcaraz, Erel Levine, V. Rittenberg

Publication date 22 October 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604223

zbMATH Keywords

avalanches (theory)conformal field theorystochastic processes (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24) Stochastic analysis in statistical mechanics (82M60)

Abstract: Using Monte-Carlo simulations on large lattices, we study the effects of changing the parameter $u$ (the ratio of the adsorption and desorption rates) of the raise and peel model. This is a nonlocal stochastic model of a fluctuating interface. We show that for $0<u<1$ the system is massive, for $u=1$ it is massless and conformal invariant. For $u>1$ the conformal invariance is broken. The system is in a scale invariant but not conformal invariant phase. As far as we know it is the first example of a system which shows such a behavior. Moreover in the broken phase, the critical exponents vary continuously with the parameter $u$. This stays true also for the critical exponent $au$ which characterizes the probability distribution function of avalanches (the critical exponent $D$ staying unchanged).

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