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A glassy phase in quenched disordered graphene and crystalline membranes

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2018-03-14 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate the flat phase of DD-dimensional crystalline membranes embedded in a dd-dimensional space and submitted to both metric and curvature quenched disorders using a nonperturbative renormalization group approach. We identify a second order phase transition controlled by a finite-temperature, finite-disorder fixed point unreachable within the leading order of ϵ=4D\epsilon=4-D and 1/d1/d expansions. This critical point divides the flow diagram into two basins of attraction: that associated to the finite-temperature fixed point controlling the long distance behaviour of disorder-free membranes and that associated to the zero-temperature, finite-disorder fixed point. Our work thus strongly suggests the existence of a whole low-temperature glassy phase for quenched disordered graphene, graphene-like compounds and, more generally, crystalline membranes.

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@article{arxiv.1708.08364,
  title  = {A glassy phase in quenched disordered graphene and crystalline membranes},
  author = {O. Coquand and K. Essafi and J. -P. Kownacki and D. Mouhanna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08364},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure