Hierarchical pinning model in correlated random environment

Details Hierarchical pinning model in correlated random environment Hierarchical pinning model in correlated random environment

2011-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/1110.5781v1

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38 pages, 3 figures

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We consider the hierarchical disordered pinning model studied in [9], which exhibits a localization/delocalization phase transition. In the case where the disorder is i.i.d. (independent and identically distributed), the question of relevance/irrelevance of disorder (i.e. whether disorder changes or not the critical properties with respect to the homogeneous case) is by now mathematically rather well understood [14,15]. Here we consider the case where randomness is spatially correlated and correlations respect the hierarchical structure of the model; in the non-hierarchical model our choice would correspond to a power-law decay of correlations. In terms of the critical exponent of the homogeneous model and of the correlation decay exponent, we identify three regions. In the first one (non-summable correlations) the phase transition disappears. In the second one (correlations decaying fast enough) the system behaves essentially like in the i.i.d. setting and the relevance/irrelevance criterion is not modified. Finally, there is a region where the presence of correlations changes the critical properties of the annealed system.

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