INTERFACES IN A RANDOM MEDIUM AND REPLICA SYMMETRY-BREAKING

被引:86
作者
MEZARD, M [1 ]
PARISI, G [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV ROMA TOR VERGATA, IST NAZL FIS NUCL, DIPARTIMENTO FIS, I-00173 ROME, ITALY
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL | 1990年 / 23卷 / 23期
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10.1088/0305-4470/23/23/008
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The authors develop a variational approach for studying interfaces and other manifolds in a disordered quenched medium. The method may be applied to problems which range from directed polymers to the interface of an Ising model in a random magnetic field. They find that replica symmetry is spontaneously broken and the results of the Flory approximation are recovered in a simple way. Corrections to this approximation may be computed in a systematic way.
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页码:L1229 / L1234
页数:6
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