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The Harris-Luck criterion for random lattices
The Harris-Luck criterion judges the relevance of (potentially) spatially
correlated, quenched disorder induced by, e.g., random bonds, randomly diluted
sites or a quasi-periodicity of the lattice, for altering the critical behavior
of a coupled matter system. We investigate the applicability of this type of
criterion to the case of spin variables coupled to random lattices. Their
aptitude to alter critical behavior depends on the degree of spatial
correlations present, which is quantified by a wandering exponent. We consider
the cases of Poissonian random graphs resulting from the Voronoi-Delaunay
construction and of planar, ``fat'' Feynman diagrams and precisely
determine their wandering exponents. The resulting predictions are compared to
various exact and numerical results for the Potts model coupled to these
quenched ensembles of random graphs.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, REVTeX 4. Version as published, one
figure added for clarification, minor re-wordings and typo cleanu
Critical behavior of magnetic systems with extended impurities in general dimensions
We investigate the critical properties of d-dimensional magnetic systems with
quenched extended defects, correlated in
dimensions (which can be considered as the dimensionality of the
defects) and randomly distributed in the remaining dimensions;
both in the case of fixed dimension d=3 and when the space dimension
continuously changes from the lower critical dimension to the upper one. The
renormalization group calculations are performed in the minimal subtraction
scheme. We analyze the two-loop renormalization group functions for different
fixed values of the parameters . To this end, we apply the
Chisholm-Borel resummation technique and report the numerical values of the
critical exponents for the universality class of this system.Comment: 8 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev.