Revisiting the Theory of Finite Size Scaling in Disordered Systems: ν Can Be Less Than 2/d

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1997-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9704155v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

4 pages, Latex, one figure in .eps format

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.5130

For phase transitions in disordered systems, an exact theorem provides a bound on the finite size correlation length exponent: \nu_{FS}<= 2/d. It is believed that the true critical exponent \nu of a disorder induced phase transition satisfies the same bound. We argue that in disordered systems the standard averaging introduces a noise, and a corresponding new diverging length scale, characterized by \nu_{FS}=2/d. This length scale, however, is independent of the system's own correlation length \xi. Therefore \nu can be less than 2/d. We illustrate these ideas on two exact examples, with \nu < 2/d. We propose a new method of disorder averaging, which achieves a remarkable noise reduction, and thus is able to capture the true exponents.

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