Random Defect Lines in Conformal Minimal Models

Details Random Defect Lines in Conformal Minimal Models Random Defect Lines in Conformal Minimal Models

1999-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9910181v1

Nucl. Phys. B 594 (2001) 685.

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

33 pages, 6 figures, LaTex

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00639-8

We analyze the effect of adding quenched disorder along a defect line in the 2D conformal minimal models using replicas. The disorder is realized by a random applied magnetic field in the Ising model, by fluctuations in the ferromagnetic bond coupling in the Tricritical Ising model and Tricritical Three-state Potts model (the $\phi_{12}$ operator), etc.. We find that for the Ising model, the defect renormalizes to two decoupled half-planes without disorder, but that for all other models, the defect renormalizes to a disorder-dominated fixed point. Its critical properties are studied with an expansion in $\eps \propto 1/m$ for the mth Virasoro minimal model. The decay exponents $X_N=\frac{N}{2}(1-\frac{9(3N-4)}{4(m+1)^2}+ \mathcal{O}(\frac{3}{m+1})^3)$ of the Nth moment of the two-point function of $\phi_{12}$ along the defect are obtained to 2-loop order, exhibiting multifractal behavior.This leads to a typical decay exponent $X_{\rm typ}={1/2} (1+\frac{9}{(m+1)^2}+\mathcal{O}(\frac{3}{m+1})^3)$. One-point functions are seen to have a non-self-averaging amplitude. The boundary entropy is larger than that of the pure system by order 1/m^3. As a byproduct of our calculations, we also obtain to 2-loop order the exponent $\tilde{X}_N=N(1-\frac{2}{9\pi^2}(3N-4)(q-2)^2+\mathcal{O}(q-2)^3)$ of the Nth moment of the energy operator in the q-state Potts model with bulk bond disorder.

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