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We study analytically the effect of a correlated random potential on the persistent current in a one-dimensional ring threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$, using an Anderson tight-binding model. In our model, the system of $N=2M$ atomic sites…

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We investigate the two-dimensional four-color Ashkin-Teller model by means of large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations. We demonstrate that the first-order phase transition of the clean system is destroyed by random disorder introduced via site…

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We investigate the effects of quenched bond randomness on the critical properties of the two-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model embedded in a triangular lattice. The system is studied in both the pure and disordered versions by the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-16 Nikolaos G. Fytas , Anastasios Malakis

We present results on the low-frequency dynamical and transport properties of random quantum systems whose low temperature ($T$), low-energy behavior is controlled by strong disorder fixed points. We obtain the momentum and frequency…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Olexei Motrunich , Kedar Damle , David A. Huse

Replica and functional renormalization group methods show that, with short range substrate forces or in strong fluctuation regimes, wetting of a self-affine rough wall in 2D turns first-order as soon as the wall roughness exponent exceeds…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Attilio L. Stella , Giovanni Sartoni

In order to investigate the role of the weight in weighted networks, the collective behavior of the Ising system on weighted regular networks is studied by numerical simulation. In our model, the coupling strength between spins is inversely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-01 Menghui Li , Ying Fan , Jinshan Wu , Zengru Di

The effects of bond randomness on the universality aspects of the simple cubic lattice ferromagnetic Blume-Capel model are discussed. The system is studied numerically in both its first- and second-order phase transition regimes by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-01 A. Malakis , A. Nihat Berker , N. G. Fytas , T. Papakonstantinou

For the first order transition of the Ising model below $T_c$, Isakov has proven that the free energy possesses an essential singularity in the applied field. Such a singularity in the control parameter, anticipated by condensation theory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-11 J. L. Meunier , A. Morel

We study the two-dimensional Potts model on the square lattice in the presence of quenched random-bond impurities. For q>4 the first-order transitions of the pure model are softened due to the impurities, and we determine the resulting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , John Cardy

The critical behaviors of quark-hadron phase transition are explored by use of the Ising model adapted for hadron production. Various measures involving the fluctuations of the produced hadrons in bins of various sizes are examined with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. C. Hwa , Y. Wu

The effects of an aperiodic order or a random disorder on phase transitions in statistical mechanics are discussed. A heuristic relevance criterion based on scaling arguments as well as specific results for Ising models with random disorder…

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Spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in superconductors with competing non-degenerate pairing channels is an exotic quantum phase transition that could give rise to robust topological superconductivity and unusual magnetism. It is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-03 Yin Shi

Rydberg atom arrays promise high-fidelity quantum simulations of critical phenomena with flexible geometries. Yet experimental realizations inevitably suffer from disorder due to random displacements of atoms, leading to departures from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-02 Xingyu Li , Shuyan Zhou , Xue Chen , Chengshu Li , Hanteng Wang

Recently it has become apparent that event-by-event fluctuations in the initial state of hydrodynamical modelling of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are crucial in order to understand the full centrality dependence of the elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Thorsten Renk , Hannu Holopainen , Jussi Auvinen , Kari J. Eskola

Spin-driven nematic order that has been proposed for iron-based superconductors is generated by pronounced fluctuations of a striped density wave state. On the other hand it is a well known fact that nematic order parameter couples…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-09 Una Karahasanovic , Joerg Schmalian

Usually, the impact of structural disorder on the magnetic phase transition in the 3D Ising model is analyzed within the framework of quenched dilution by a non-magnetic component, where some lattice sites are occupied by Ising spins, while…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-04 J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo , M. Dudka , M. Krasnytska , Yu. Holovatch

We analyze quantum fluctuation effects at the onset of incommensurate $2k_F$ charge- or spin-density wave order in two-dimensional metals, for a model where the ordering wave vector $\boldsymbol{Q}$ connects a single pair of hot spots on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-09 Lukas Debbeler , Walter Metzner

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

By using recent developments for the Langevin dynamics of spatially asymmetric systems, we routinely generalize the Onsager-Machlup fluctuation theory of the second order in time. In this form, it becomes applicable to fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-28 Roman Belousov , E. G. D. Cohen

We consider general disordered models of pinning of directed polymers on a defect line. This class contains in particular the $(1+1)$--dimensional interface wetting model, the disordered Poland--Scheraga model of DNA denaturation and other…

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