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G Delfino & NM Lamsen. Exact results for the O(N) model with quenched disorder, J. High Energy Phys. 2018, 77 (2018).
Abstract
We use scale invariant scattering theory to exactly determine the lines of renormalization group fixed points for O(N)-symmetric models with quenched disorder in two dimensions. Random fixed points are characterized by two disorder parameters: a modulus that vanishes when approaching the pure case, and a phase angle. The critical lines fall into three classes depending on the values of the disorder modulus. Besides the class corresponding to the pure case, a second class has maximal value of the disorder modulus and includes Nishimori-like multicritical points as well as zero temperature fixed points. The third class contains critical lines that interpolate, as N varies, between the first two classes. For positive N, it contains a single line of infrared fixed points spanning the values of N from √2 - 1 to 1. The symmetry sector of the energy density operator is superuniversal (i.e. N-independent) along this line. For N = 2 a line of fixed points exists only in the pure case, but accounts also for the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase observed in presence of disorder.