Random polymers and delocalization transitions

zbMATH Open1136.82318arXivcond-mat/0605448MaRDI QIDQ5446151FDOQ5446151

Authors: Cécile Monthus, Thomas Garel 

Publication date: 6 March 2008

Abstract: In these proceedings, we first summarize some general properties of phase transitions in the presence of quenched disorder, with emphasis on the following points: the need to distinguish typical and averaged correlations, the possible existence of two correlation length exponents $u$, the general bound $u_{FS}geq2/d$, the lack of self-averaging of thermodynamic observables at criticality, the scaling properties of the distribution of pseudo-critical temperatures $T_c(i,L)$ over the ensemble of samples of size $L$. We then review our recent works on the critical properties of various delocalization transitions involving random polymers, namely (i) the bidimensional wetting (ii) the Poland-Scheraga model of DNA denaturation (iii) the depinning transition of the selective interface model (iv) the freezing transition of the directed polymer in a random medium.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605448

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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