The depinning transition in presence of disorder: a toy model

DOI10.1007/S10955-014-1006-YzbMATH Open1312.82005arXiv1401.6919OpenAlexW3099103009MaRDI QIDQ744565FDOQ744565

Bernard Derrida, Martin Retaux

Publication date: 25 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a toy model, which represents a simplified version of the problem of the depinning transition in the limit of strong disorder. This toy model can be formulated as a simple renormalization transformation for the probability distribution of a single real variable. For this toy model, {the critical line is known exactly in one particular case} and it can be calculated perturbatively in the general case. One can also show that, at the transition, there is no strong disorder fixed distribution accessible by renormalization. Instead, both our numerical and analytic approaches indicate a transition of infinite order (of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type). We give numerical evidence that this infinite order transition persists for the problem of the depinning transition with disorder on the hierarchical lattice.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6919

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionstatistical mechanicshierarchical latticeself-gravitating systemsBerezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

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