An Exactly Solvable Model of Randomly Pinned Charge Density Waves in Two Dimensions
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| author | O'Brien, Matthew C. Fradkin, Eduardo |
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| contents | The nature of the interplay between fluctuations and quenched random disorder is a long-standing open problem, particularly in systems with a continuous order parameter. This lack of a full theoretical treatment has been underscored by recent advances in experiments on charge density wave materials. To address this problem, we formulate an exactly solvable model of a two-dimensional randomly pinned incommensurate charge density wave, and use the large-$N$ technique to map out the phase diagram and order parameter correlations. Our approach captures the physics of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in the clean limit at large $N$. We pay particular attention to the roles of thermal fluctuations and quenched random field disorder in destroying long-range order, finding a novel crossover between weakly- and strongly-disordered regimes. |
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| spellingShingle | An Exactly Solvable Model of Randomly Pinned Charge Density Waves in Two Dimensions O'Brien, Matthew C. Fradkin, Eduardo Strongly Correlated Electrons Disordered Systems and Neural Networks The nature of the interplay between fluctuations and quenched random disorder is a long-standing open problem, particularly in systems with a continuous order parameter. This lack of a full theoretical treatment has been underscored by recent advances in experiments on charge density wave materials. To address this problem, we formulate an exactly solvable model of a two-dimensional randomly pinned incommensurate charge density wave, and use the large-$N$ technique to map out the phase diagram and order parameter correlations. Our approach captures the physics of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in the clean limit at large $N$. We pay particular attention to the roles of thermal fluctuations and quenched random field disorder in destroying long-range order, finding a novel crossover between weakly- and strongly-disordered regimes. |
| title | An Exactly Solvable Model of Randomly Pinned Charge Density Waves in Two Dimensions |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Disordered Systems and Neural Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10030 |