Bose glass in a large-N commensurate dirty boson model

M. B. Hastings
Phys. Rev. B 64, 024517 – Published 20 June 2001
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Abstract

The large-N commensurate dirty boson model, in both the weakly and strongly commensurate cases, is considered via a perturbative renormalization-group treatment. In the weakly commensurate case, there exists a fixed line under renormalization-group flow, with varying amounts of disorder along the line. Including 1/N corrections causes the system to flow to strong disorder, indicating that the model does not have a phase transition perturbatively connected to the Mott insulator-superfluid (MI-SF) transition. I discuss the qualitative effects of instantons on the low-energy density of excitations. In the strongly commensurate case, a fixed point found previously is considered and results are obtained for higher moments of the correlation functions. To lowest order, correlation functions have a log-normal distribution. Finally, I prove two interesting theorems for large-N vector models with disorder, relevant to the problem of replica symmetry breaking and frustration in such systems.

  • Received 27 April 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.024517

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

M. B. Hastings*

  • Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

  • *Present address: CNLS, MS B258, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545. Email address: hastings@cnls.lanl.gov

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Vol. 64, Iss. 2 — 1 July 2001

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