Level Set Percolation in Two-Dimensional Gaussian Free Field
Statistical Mechanics
2021-03-31 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
The nature of level set percolation in the two-dimension Gaussian Free Field has been an elusive question. Using a loop-model mapping, we show that there is a nontrivial percolation transition, and characterize the critical point. In particular, the correlation length diverges exponentially, and the critical clusters are "logarithmic fractals", whose area scales with the linear size as . The two-point connectivity also decays as the log of the distance. We corroborate our theory by numerical simulations. Possible CFT interpretations are discussed.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.09570,
title = {Level Set Percolation in Two-Dimensional Gaussian Free Field},
author = {Xiangyu Cao and Raoul Santachiara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09570},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures; v3: accepted version, minor changes, Supplemental Material included