Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-01-31
Nucl. Phys. B 839, 341-376 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
22 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.04.012
Many classes of non-linear sigma models (NLSMs) are known to contain composite operators with an arbitrary number 2s of derivatives ("high-gradient operators") which appear to become strongly relevant within RG calculations at one (or fixed higher) loop order, when the number 2s of derivatives becomes large. This occurs at many conventional fixed points of NLSMs which are perturbatively accessible within the usual epsilon-expansion in d=2+\epsilon dimensions. Since such operators are not prohibited from occurring in the action, they appear to threaten the very existence of such fixed points. At the same time, for NLSMs describing metal-insulator transitions of Anderson localization in electronic conductors, the strong RG-relevance of these operators has been previously related to statistical properties of the conductance of samples of large finite size ("conductance fluctuations"). In this paper, we analyze this question, not for perturbative RG treatments of NLSMs, but for 2d Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models at level k, perturbatively in the current-current interaction of the Noether current. WZW models are special ("Principal Chiral") NLSMs on a Lie Group G with a WZW term at level k. In these models the role of high-gradient operators is played by homogeneous polynomials of order 2s in the Noether currents, whose scaling dimensions we analyze. For the Lie Supergroup G=GL(2N|2N) and k=1, this corresponds to time-reversal invariant problems of Anderson localization in the so-called chiral symmetry classes, and the strength of the current-current interaction, a measure of the strength of disorder, is known to be completely marginal (for any k). We find that all high-gradient (polynomial) operators are, to one loop order, irrelevant or relevant depending on the sign of that interaction.
Furusaki Akira
Ludwig Andreas
Mudry Christopher
Ryu Shinsei
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