Disorder-induced depinning transition
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 51 (1) , 455-469
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.51.455
Abstract
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 ε expansion.Keywords
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