Smoothing effect of quenched disorder on polymer depinning transitions

DOI10.1007/S00220-006-0008-2zbMATH Open1113.82032arXivmath/0506431OpenAlexW2079893750MaRDI QIDQ863158FDOQ863158

Authors: Giambattista Giacomin, Fabio Lucio Toninelli 

Publication date: 25 January 2007

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider general disordered models of pinning of directed polymers on a defect line. This class contains in particular the $(1+1)$--dimensional interface wetting model, the disordered Poland--Scheraga model of DNA denaturation and other $(1+d)$--dimensional polymers in interaction with flat interfaces. We consider also the case of copolymers with adsorption at a selective interface. Under quite general conditions, these models are known to have a (de)localization transition at some critical line in the phase diagram. In this work we prove in particular that, as soon as disorder is present, the transition is at least of second order, in the sense that the free energy is differentiable at the critical line, so that the order parameter vanishes continuously at the transition. On the other hand, it is known that the corresponding non--disordered models can have a first order (de)localization transition, with a discontinuous first derivative. Our result shows therefore that the presence of the disorder has really a smoothing effect on the transition. The relation with the predictions based on the Harris criterion is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506431

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsquenched disorderrandom copolymerdirected polymers in random mediapolymer depinning transitionsrandom pinningrandom wetting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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