Pinning and disorder relevance for the lattice Gaussian free field

DOI10.4171/JEMS/764zbMATH Open1430.60084arXiv1501.07909MaRDI QIDQ679669FDOQ679669

Hubert Lacoin, Giambattista Giacomin

Publication date: 19 January 2018

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper provides a rigorous study of the localization transition for a Gaussian free field on $mathbb{Z}^d$ interacting with a quenched disordered substrate that acts on the interface when the interface height is close to zero. The substrate has the tendency to localize or repel the interface at different sites and one can show that a localization-delocalization transition takes place when varying the average pinning potential $h$: the free energy density is zero in the delocalized regime, that is for $h$ smaller than a threshold $h_c$, and it is positive for $h>h_c$. For $dge3$ we compute $h_c$ and we show that the transition happens at the same value as for the annealed model. However we can show that the critical behavior of the quenched model differs from the one of the annealed one. While the phase transition of the annealed model is of first order, we show that the quenched free energy is bounded above by $(h-h_c{)}_{+}^2$ times a positive constant and that, for Gaussian disorder, the quadratic behavior is sharp. Therefore this provides an example in which a {sl relevant disorder critical exponent} can be made explicit: in theoretical physics disorder is said to be {sl relevant} when the disorder changes the critical behavior of a system and, while there are cases in which it is known that disorder is relevant, the exact critical behavior is typically unknown. For $d=2$ we are not able to decide whether the quenched and annealed critical points coincide, but we provide an upper bound for the difference between them.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07909

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zbMATH Keywords

critical behaviordisorder relevancedisordered pinning modelco-membrane modellattice Gaussian free fieldlocalization transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Processes in random environments (60K37) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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