28 research outputs found
Statistical Mechanics of Logarithmic REM: Duality, Freezing and Extreme Value Statistics of Noises generated by Gaussian Free Fields
We compute the distribution of the partition functions for a class of
one-dimensional Random Energy Models (REM) with logarithmically correlated
random potential, above and at the glass transition temperature. The random
potential sequences represent various versions of the 1/f noise generated by
sampling the two-dimensional Gaussian Free Field (2dGFF) along various planar
curves. Our method extends the recent analysis of Fyodorov Bouchaud from the
circular case to an interval and is based on an analytical continuation of the
Selberg integral. In particular, we unveil a {\it duality relation} satisfied
by the suitable generating function of free energy cumulants in the
high-temperature phase. It reinforces the freezing scenario hypothesis for that
generating function, from which we derive the distribution of extrema for the
2dGFF on the interval. We provide numerical checks of the circular and
the interval case and discuss universality and various extensions. Relevance to
the distribution of length of a segment in Liouville quantum gravity is noted.Comment: 25 pages, 12 figures Published version. Misprint corrected,
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Another derivation of the geometrical KPZ relations
We give a physicist's derivation of the geometrical (in the spirit of
Duplantier-Sheffield) KPZ relations, via heat kernel methods. It gives a
covariant way to define neighborhoods of fractals in 2d quantum gravity, and
shows that these relations are in the realm of conformal field theory
Critical curves in conformally invariant statistical systems
We consider critical curves -- conformally invariant curves that appear at
critical points of two-dimensional statistical mechanical systems. We show how
to describe these curves in terms of the Coulomb gas formalism of conformal
field theory (CFT). We also provide links between this description and the
stochastic (Schramm-) Loewner evolution (SLE). The connection appears in the
long-time limit of stochastic evolution of various SLE observables related to
CFT primary fields. We show how the multifractal spectrum of harmonic measure
and other fractal characteristics of critical curves can be obtained.Comment: Published versio
Pre-freezing of multifractal exponents in Random Energy Models with logarithmically correlated potential
Boltzmann-Gibbs measures generated by logarithmically correlated random
potentials are multifractal. We investigate the abrupt change ("pre-freezing")
of multifractality exponents extracted from the averaged moments of the measure
- the so-called inverse participation ratios. The pre-freezing can be
identified with termination of the disorder-averaged multifractality spectrum.
Naive replica limit employed to study a one-dimensional variant of the model is
shown to break down at the pre-freezing point. Further insights are possible
when employing zero-dimensional and infinite-dimensional versions of the
problem. In particular, the latter version allows one to identify the pattern
of the replica symmetry breaking responsible for the pre-freezing phenomenon.Comment: This is published version, 11 pages, 1 figur
Using the Schramm-Loewner evolution to explain certain non-local observables in the 2d critical Ising model
We present a mathematical proof of theoretical predictions made by Arguin and
Saint-Aubin, as well as by Bauer, Bernard, and Kytola, about certain non-local
observables for the two-dimensional Ising model at criticality by combining
Smirnov's recent proof of the fact that the scaling limit of critical Ising
interfaces can be described by chordal SLE(3) with Kozdron and Lawler's
configurational measure on mutually avoiding chordal SLE paths. As an extension
of this result, we also compute the probability that an SLE(k) path, k in
(0,4], and a Brownian motion excursion do not intersect.Comment: v1: 17 pages, 4 figures, to appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor
Confluence of geodesic paths and separating loops in large planar quadrangulations
We consider planar quadrangulations with three marked vertices and discuss
the geometry of triangles made of three geodesic paths joining them. We also
study the geometry of minimal separating loops, i.e. paths of minimal length
among all closed paths passing by one of the three vertices and separating the
two others in the quadrangulation. We concentrate on the universal scaling
limit of large quadrangulations, also known as the Brownian map, where pairs of
geodesic paths or minimal separating loops have common parts of non-zero
macroscopic length. This is the phenomenon of confluence, which distinguishes
the geometry of random quadrangulations from that of smooth surfaces. We
characterize the universal probability distribution for the lengths of these
common parts.Comment: 48 pages, 33 color figures. Final version, with one concluding
paragraph and one reference added, and several other small correction
Two Perspectives of the 2D Unit Area Quantum Sphere and Their Equivalence
2D Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) is used as a toy model for 4D quantum
gravity and is the theory of world-sheet in string theory. Recently there has
been growing interest in studying LQG in the realm of probability theory:
David, Kupiainen, Rhodes, Vargas (2014) and Duplantier, Miller, Sheffield
(2014) both provide a probabilistic perspective of the LQG on the 2D sphere. In
particular, in each of them one may find a definition of the so-called unit
area quantum sphere. We examine these two perspectives and prove their
equivalence by showing that the respective unit area quantum spheres are the
same. This is done by considering a unified limiting procedure for defining
both objects.Comment: minor revisions; final versio