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arXiv:1110.5495 · Physical Review B

Nonperturbative functional renormalization group for random field models and related disordered systems. III. Superfield formalism and ground-state dominance

Matthieu Tissier, Gilles Tarjus

Published Mar 2, 2012• 53 citations
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Abstract

We reformulate the nonperturbative functional renormalization group for the random field Ising model in a superfield formalism, extending the supersymmetric description of the critical behavior of the system first proposed by Parisi and Sourlas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 744 (1979)]. We show that the two crucial ingredients for this extension are the introduction of a weighting factor, which accounts for ground-state dominance when multiple metastable states are present, and of multiple copies of the original system, which allows one to access the full functional dependence of the cumulants of the renormalized disorder and to describe rare events. We then derive exact renormalization group equations for the flow of the renormalized cumulants associated with the effective average action.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.85.104202

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