Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-09-25
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
41 pages, latex, uuencoded file with 2 figues included
Scientific paper
We describe applications of (perturbed) conformal field theories to two-dimensional disordered systems. We present various methods of study~: (i) {\it A direct method} in which we compute the explicit disorder dependence of the correlation functions for any sample of the disorder. This method seems to be specific to two dimensions. The examples we use are disordered versions of the Abelian and non-Abelian WZW models. We show that the disordered WZW model over the Lie group $\CG$ at level $k$ is equivalent at large impurity density to the product of the WZW model over the coset space $\CG^C/\CG$ at level $(-2h^v)$ times an arbitrary number of copies of the original WZW model. (ii) {\it The supersymmetric method} is introduced using the random bond Ising model and the random Dirac theory as examples. In particular, we show that the relevent algebra is the affine $OSp(2N|2N)$ Lie superalgebra, an algebra with zero superdimension. (iii) {\it The replica method} is introduced using the random phase sine-Gordon model as example. We describe particularities of its renormalization group flow. (iv) {\it A variationnal approach} is also presented using the random phase sine-Gordon model as example. Lectures presented at the '95 Cargese Summer School on "Low dimensional application of quantum field theory".
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