کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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9867219 | 1529979 | 2005 | 91 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Thermal fluctuations in pinned elastic systems: field theory of rare events and droplets
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موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه
فیزیک و نجوم
فیزیک و نجوم (عمومی)
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چکیده انگلیسی
Using the functional renormalization group (FRG) we study the thermal fluctuations of elastic objects (displacement field u, internal dimension d) pinned by a random potential at low temperature T, as prototypes for glasses. A challenge is how the field theory can describe both typical (minimum energy T = 0) configurations, as well as thermal averages which, at any non-zero T as in the phenomenological droplet picture, are dominated by rare degeneracies between low lying minima. We show that this occurs through an essentially non-perturbative thermal boundary layer (TBL) in the (running) effective action Π[u] at T > 0 for which we find a consistent scaling ansatz to all orders. The TBL describes how temperature smoothes the singularities of the T = 0 theory and contains the physics of rare thermal excitations (droplets). The formal structure of this TBL, which involves all cumulants of the coarse grained disorder, is first explored around d = 4 using a one-loop Wilson RG. Next, a more systematic exact RG (ERG) method is employed, and first tested on d = 0 models where it can be pushed quite far. There we obtain precise relations between TBL quantities and droplet probabilities (those are constrained by exact identities which are then checked against recent exact results). Our analysis is then extended to higher d, where we illustrate how the TBL scaling remains consistent to all orders in the ERG and how droplet picture results can be retrieved. Since correlations are determined deep in the TBL (by derivatives of Π[u] at u = 0), it remains to be understood (in any d) how they can be retrieved (as u = 0+ limits in the non-analytic T = 0 effective action), i.e., how to recover a T = 0 critical theory. This formidable “matching problem” is solved in detail for d = 0, N = 1 by studying the (partial) TBL structure of higher cumulants when points are brought together. We thereby obtain the β-function at T = 0, all ambiguities removed, displayed here up to four loops. A discussion of the d > 4 case and an exact solution at large d are also provided.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Annals of Physics - Volume 315, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 213-303
Journal: Annals of Physics - Volume 315, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 213-303
نویسندگان
Leon Balents, Pierre Le Doussal,