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Quenched disorder - in the sense of the Harris criterion - is generally a relevant perturbation at an absorbing state phase transition point. Here using a strong disorder renormalization group framework and effective numerical methods we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jef Hooyberghs , Ferenc Igloi , Carlo Vanderzande

We study random pinning and copolymer models, when the return distribution of the underlying renewal process has a polynomial tail with finite mean. We compute the asymptotic behavior of the critical curves of the models in the weak…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Quentin Berger , Francesco Caravenna , Julien Poisat , Rongfeng Sun , Nikos Zygouras

We consider models of directed random polymers interacting with a defect line, which are known to undergo a pinning/depinning (or localization/delocalization) phase transition. We are interested in critical properties and we prove, in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 F. L. Toninelli

These notes are devoted to the statistical mechanics of directed polymers interacting with one-dimensional spatial defects. We are interested in particular in the situation where frozen disorder is present. These polymer models undergo a…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-10 F. Toninelli

In this paper we look at the pinning of a directed polymer by a one-dimensional linear interface carrying random charges. There are two phases, localized and delocalized, depending on the inverse temperature and on the disorder bias. Using…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-17 Dimitris Cheliotis , Frank den Hollander

We numerically study the wetting (adsorption) transition of a polymer chain on a disordered substrate in 1+1 dimension.Following the Poland-Scheraga model of DNA denaturation, we use a Fixman-Freire scheme for the entropy of loops. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Garel , Cecile Monthus

We use a generalization of Hoeffding's inequality to show concentration results for the free energy of disordered pinning models, assuming only that the disorder has a finite exponential moment. We also prove some concentration inequalities…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-15 Frederique Watbled

In this paper, we study a disordered pinning model induced by a random walk whose increments have a finite $(2+\kappa)$-th moment for some $\kappa>0$. It is known that this model is marginally relevant, and moreover, it undergoes a phase…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Ran Wei , Jinjiong Yu

We consider disordered systems of directed polymer type, for which disorder is so-called marginally relevant. These include the usual (short-range) directed polymer model in dimension (2+1), the long-range directed polymer model with Cauchy…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Francesco Caravenna , Rongfeng Sun , Nikos Zygouras

We study a random walk pinning model, where conditioned on a simple random walk Y on Z^d acting as a random medium, the path measure of a second independent simple random walk X up to time t is Gibbs transformed with Hamiltonian -L_t(X,Y),…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-04-24 Matthias Birkner , Rongfeng Sun

The competition in the pinning of a directed polymer by a columnar pin and a background of random point impurities is investigated systematically using the renormalization group method. With the aid of the mapping to the noisy-Burgers'…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Terence Hwa , Thomas Nattermann

We consider a polymer, with monomer locations modeled by the trajectory of a Markov chain, in the presence of a potential that interacts with the polymer when it visits a particular site 0. We assume that probability of an excursion of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kenneth S. Alexander

We consider the disordered monomer-dimer model on general finite graphs with bounded degrees. Under the finite fourth moment assumption on the weight distributions, we prove a Gaussian central limit theorem for the free energy of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Wai-Kit Lam , Arnab Sen

We consider a polymer with configuration modeled by the path of a Markov chain, interacting with a potential $u+V_n$ which the chain encounters when it visits a special state 0 at time $n$. The disorder $(V_n)$ is a fixed realization of an…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Kenneth S. Alexander , Nikos Zygouras

Disordered systems present multifractal properties at criticality. In particular, as discovered by Ludwig (A.W.W. Ludwig, Nucl. Phys. B 330, 639 (1990)) on the case of diluted two-dimensional Potts model, the moments $\bar{\rho^q(r)}$ of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-08-22 Cecile Monthus , Thomas Garel

The Poland--Scheraga model, introduced in the 1970's, is a reference model to describe the denaturation transition of DNA. More recently, it has been generalized in order to allow for asymmetry in the strands lengths and in the formation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Quentin Berger , Alexandre Legrand

Any renewal processes on $\mathbb{N}$ with a polynomial tail, with exponent $\alpha \in (0,1)$, has a non-trivial scaling limit, known as the $\alpha$-stable regenerative set. In this paper we consider Gibbs transformations of such renewal…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Francesco Caravenna , Rongfeng Sun , Nikos Zygouras

The effect of disorder for pinning models is a subject which has attracted much attention in theoretical physics and rigorous mathematical physics. A peculiar point of interest is the question of coincidence of the quenched and annealed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Quentin Berger , Hubert Lacoin

Disordered pinning models are statistical mechanics models built on discrete renewal processes: renewal epochs in this context are called contacts. It is well known that pinning models can undergo a localization/delocalization phase…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Giambattista Giacomin , Marco Zamparo

We show that most of the results proven in the localized regime of the pinning model with independent disorder (notably, $\mathcal{C}^\infty$ regularity of the free energy, size of the largest gap among pinned sites and Central Limit…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Giambattista Giacomin , Alexandre Legrand , Marco Zamparo