Continuous interfaces with disorder: Even strong pinning is too weak in two dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.SPA.2007.11.005zbMATH Open1151.60348arXiv0704.0582OpenAlexW1617778414MaRDI QIDQ952734FDOQ952734

Authors: Christof Külske, Enza Orlandi 

Publication date: 14 November 2008

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider statistical mechanics models of continuous height effective interfaces in the presence of a delta-pinning at height zero. There is a detailed mathematical understanding of the depinning transition in 2 dimensions without disorder. Then the variance of the interface height w.r.t. the Gibbs measure stays bounded uniformly in the volume for any positive pinning force and diverges like the logarithm of the pinning force when it tends to zero. How does the presence of a quenched disorder term in the Hamiltonian modify this transition? We show that an arbitarily weak random field term is enough to beat an arbitrarily strong delta-pinning in 2 dimensions and will cause delocalization. The proof is based on a rigorous lower bound for the overlap between local magnetizations and random fields in finite volume. In 2 dimensions it implies growth faster than the volume which is a contradiction to localization. We also derive a simple complementary inequality which shows that in higher dimensions the fraction of pinned sites converges to one when the pinning force tends to infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0582

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Processes in random environments (60K37) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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