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2-loop Functional Renormalization for elastic manifolds pinned by disorder in N dimensions

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study elastic manifolds in a N-dimensional random potential using functional RG. We extend to N>1 our previous construction of a field theory renormalizable to two loops. For isotropic disorder with O(N) symmetry we obtain the fixed point and roughness exponent to next order in epsilon=4-d, where d is the internal dimension of the manifold. Extrapolation to the directed polymer limit d=1 allows some handle on the strong coupling phase of the equivalent N-dimensional KPZ growth equation, and eventually suggests an upper critical dimension of about 2.5.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0501315,
  title  = {2-loop Functional Renormalization for elastic manifolds pinned by disorder in N dimensions},
  author = {Pierre Le Doussal and Kay Joerg Wiese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0501315},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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