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Super-rough phase of the random-phase sine-Gordon model: Two-loop results

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2012-08-06 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We consider the two-dimensional random-phase sine-Gordon and study the vicinity of its glass transition temperature TcT_c, in an expansion in small τ=(TcT)/Tc\tau=(T_c-T)/T_c, where TT denotes the temperature. We derive renormalization group equations in cubic order in the anharmonicity, and show that they contain two universal invariants. Using them we obtain that the correlation function in the super-rough phase for temperature T<TcT<T_c behaves at large distances as <[θ(x)θ(0)]2>ˉ=Aln2(x/a)+O[ln(x/a)]\bar{<[\theta(x)-\theta(0)]^2>} = \mathcal{A}\ln^2(|x|/a) + \mathcal{O}[\ln(|x|/a)], where the amplitude A\mathcal{A} is a universal function of temperature A=2τ22τ3+O(τ4)\mathcal{A}=2\tau^2-2\tau^3+\mathcal{O}(\tau^4). This result differs at two-loop order, i.e., O(τ3)\mathcal{O}(\tau^3), from the prediction based on results from the "nearly conformal" field theory of a related fermion model. We also obtain the correction-to-scaling exponent.

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@article{arxiv.1204.6221,
  title  = {Super-rough phase of the random-phase sine-Gordon model: Two-loop results},
  author = {Zoran Ristivojevic and Pierre Le Doussal and Kay Jörg Wiese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.6221},
  year   = {2012}
}

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