Relation between directed polymers in random media and random-bond dimer models
- Jiang, Ying Department de Physique, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
- Emig, Thorsten Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, CNRS UMR 8626, Université Paris-Sud, France
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13.04.2007
Published in:
- Physical Review B. - 2007, vol. 75, p. 134413
English
We reassess the relation between classical lattice dimer models and the continuum elastic description of a lattice of fluctuating polymers. In the absence of randomness, we determine the density and line tension of the polymers in terms of the bond weights of hard-core dimers on the square and the honeycomb lattice. For the latter, we demonstrate the equivalence of the set of complete dimer coverings and the grand-canonical description of polymers by performing explicitly the continuum limit. Using this equivalence for the random-bond dimer model on a square lattice, we resolve a previously observed discrepancy between numerical results for the random dimer model and a replica approach for polymers in random media. Further potential applications of the equivalence are briefly discussed.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Physics
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- License undefined
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- RERO DOC 8898
- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.134413
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300518
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