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Glass phase of two-dimensional triangular elastic lattices with disorder

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2016-08-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study two dimensional triangular elastic lattices in a background of point disorder, excluding dislocations (tethered network). Using both (replica symmetric) static and (equilibrium) dynamic renormalization group for the corresponding N=2N=2 component model, we find a transition to a glass phase for T<TgT < T_g, described by a plane of perturbative fixed points. The growth of displacements is found to be asymptotically isotropic with uT2uL2A1ln2ru_T^2 \sim u_L^2 \sim A_1 \ln^2 r, with universal subdominant anisotropy uT2uL2A2lnru_T^2 - u_L^2 \sim A_2 \ln r. where A1A_1 and A2A_2 depend continuously on temperature and the Poisson ratio σ\sigma. We also obtain the continuously varying dynamical exponent zz. For the Cardy-Ostlund N=1N=1 model, a particular case of the above model, we point out a discrepancy in the value of A1A_1 with other published results in the litterature. We find that our result reconciles the order of magnitude of the RG predictions with the most recent numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9611168,
  title  = {Glass phase of two-dimensional triangular elastic lattices with disorder},
  author = {David Carpentier and Pierre Le Doussal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9611168},
  year   = {2016}
}

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25 pages, RevTeX, uses epsf,multicol and amssymb