Dimers with layered disorder

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Main Authors: Moulard, Quentin, Toninelli, Fabio
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author Moulard, Quentin
Toninelli, Fabio
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Toninelli, Fabio
contents We study the dimer model on the square grid, with quenched random edge weights. Randomness is chosen to have a layered structure, similar to that of the celebrated McCoy-Wu disordered Ising model. Disorder has a highly non-trivial effect and it produces an essential singularity of the free energy, with $e^{-\sqrt{\rm distance}}$ decay of dimer-dimer correlations, at a point of the ``liquid'' (or ``massless'') phase where the homogeneous dimer model has instead a real analytic free energy and correlations decaying like $1/({\rm distance})^2$. Moreover, at a point where the homogeneous model has a transition between a massive (gaseous) and massless (liquid) phase, the critical exponent 3/2 (Pokrovsky-Talapov law), characteristic of the transition between the two regimes, is modified by disorder into an exponent that ranges continuously between 3/2 and infinity.
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Moulard, Quentin
Toninelli, Fabio
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We study the dimer model on the square grid, with quenched random edge weights. Randomness is chosen to have a layered structure, similar to that of the celebrated McCoy-Wu disordered Ising model. Disorder has a highly non-trivial effect and it produces an essential singularity of the free energy, with $e^{-\sqrt{\rm distance}}$ decay of dimer-dimer correlations, at a point of the ``liquid'' (or ``massless'') phase where the homogeneous dimer model has instead a real analytic free energy and correlations decaying like $1/({\rm distance})^2$. Moreover, at a point where the homogeneous model has a transition between a massive (gaseous) and massless (liquid) phase, the critical exponent 3/2 (Pokrovsky-Talapov law), characteristic of the transition between the two regimes, is modified by disorder into an exponent that ranges continuously between 3/2 and infinity.
title Dimers with layered disorder
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url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11964