DISORDER-INDUCED DEPINNING TRANSITION

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HWA, T [1 ]
NATTERMANN, T [1 ]
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[1] UNIV COLOGNE, INST THEORET PHYS, D-50937 COLOGNE, GERMANY
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10.1103/PhysRevB.51.455
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T [工业技术];
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The competition in the pinning of a directed polymer by a columnar pin and a background of random point impurities is investigated systematically using the renormalization-group method. With the aid of the mapping to the noisy-Burgers equation and the use of the mode-coupling method, the directed polymer is shown to be marginally localized to an arbitrary weak columnar pin in 1+1 dimensions. This weak-localization effect is attributed to the existence of large scale, nearly degenerate optimal paths of the randomly pinned directed polymer. The critical behavior of the depinning transition above 1+1 dimensions is obtained via an expansion. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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