Directed polymers and interfaces in random media : free-energy optimization via confinement in a wandering tube

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2003-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312282v1

Phys. Rev. E 69, 061112 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

19 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.69.061112

We analyze, via Imry-Ma scaling arguments, the strong disorder phases that exist in low dimensions at all temperatures for directed polymers and interfaces in random media. For the uncorrelated Gaussian disorder, we obtain that the optimal strategy for the polymer in dimension $1+d$ with $01/2$ for the wandering of the best favorable tube available. The corresponding free-energy then scales as $F \sim L^{\omega}$ with $\omega=2 \nu-1$ and the left tail of the probability distribution involves a stretched exponential of exponent $\eta= (4-d)/2$. These results generalize the well known exact exponents $\nu=2/3$, $\omega=1/3$ and $\eta=3/2$ in $d=1$, where the subleading transverse length $R_S \sim L^{1/3}$ is known as the typical distance between two replicas in the Bethe Ansatz wave function. We then extend our approach to correlated disorder in transverse directions with exponent $\alpha$ and/or to manifolds in dimension $D+d=d_{t}$ with $00$). In particular, for an interface of dimension $(d_t-1)$ in a space of total dimension $5/3

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