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Phase diagram and the strong-coupling fixed point in the disordered O(n) loop model

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2014-04-07 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We numerically study the phase diagram and critical properties of the two-dimensional disordered O(n) loop model by using the transfer matrix and the worm Monte Carlo methods. The renormalization group flow is extracted from the landscape of the effective central charge obtained by the transfer matrix method based on the Zamolodchikov's C-theorem. We find a line of random fixed points (FPs) for nc<n<1n_c < n <1, with nc0.5n_c \sim 0.5, for which the central charge and critical exponents agree well with the results of the 1n1-n perturbative expansion. Furthermore, for n>ncn> n_c, we find a line of multicritical FPs at strong randomness. The FP at n=1n=1 has c=0.4612(4)c=0.4612(4), which suggests that it belongs to the universality class of the Nishimori point in the ±J\pm J random-bond Ising model. For n>2n>2, we find another critical line that connects the hard-hexagon FP in the pure model to a finite-randomness zero-temperature FP.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1308.4333,
  title  = {Phase diagram and the strong-coupling fixed point in the disordered O(n) loop model},
  author = {Hirohiko Shimada and Jesper Lykke Jacobsen and Yoshitomo Kamiya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4333},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures, uses iopart.cls; clarified in Section 3.2 the relationship between the n=1 model and a spin glass by an exact duality mapping

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