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Replica approach to directed Feynman paths with random phases

Thomas Blum, Yonathan Shapir, Daniel Koltun

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Thomas Blum, Yonathan Shapir, Daniel Koltun. Replica approach to directed Feynman paths with random phases. Journal de Physique I, EDP Sciences, 1991, 1 (5), pp.613-620. �10.1051/jp1:1991156�.

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Classification

Physics

Abstrticts

05.40 7120

Shod Communication

Replica approach to directed Feynman paths

v4th random phases

Thomas

Blum,

Yonathan

Shapb

and Daniel S. Koltun

Department

of

Physics

and

Astronomy University

of

Rochester, Rochester,

NY

lM27-l0ll,

U.s.A.

(Received

19

Febmmy 1991, ticcepted11

March

1991)

R6sum6. Los chemins de

Feynman dirigds qui

accumulent des

phases

aldatoires font

partie

des 6tudes r6centes de la

propagation

d'61ectrons ou d'ondes

dlectromagnetiques

en milieux d6sordon- nds. Nous examinons leurs

propridtds

d'£chelle en utilisant la th£orie des

r£pliques.

Deux mod61es

avec corrdlations de courte et de tr6s

longue port6e

en I+ I dimensions sent 6tud16s. Nous 6valuons le

comportement

b

grandes

et

petites

valeurs

(finies)

de n des modHes

quantiques

k 2n corps avec in-

teractions attractives et

r6pulsives qui

en resultent. Nous

soulignons

(es diflicult6s

qui surgissent

dans la Ii mite n - 0 et la

possibilitd

de brisure de

symdtrie

des

r£pliques.

-Abstract. Directed

Feynman paths

in I+I dimensions that

acquire

random

phases,

encountered in the

study

of electron and

light propagation

in disordered

media,

are examined

by

means of the

replica

trick. Two models are considered one with

short-range correlations,

the other with very

long-range

correlations. The

large

and small

(finite)

n behavior of the

resulting 2n-body quantum

Hamiltonians with

competing

interactions is calculated. the difficulties that arise in

extrapolating

the results to n - o and the

possibility

of

replica symmetry breaking

are discussed.

The

importance

of the

forwardscattering

interference mechanism in the

(hopping)

conduc-

tivity

of insulators has been

pointed

out

by

Shklovskii

[ii.

Each

hop actually

consists of the su-

perposition

of many

scatterings patlls.

Since the electrons are

loca1i2ed,

each

path's

contribu- tion

decays exponentially. Consequently,

models

involving only

the shortest or "directed"

paws

have been considered

[2-7j.

lb

study

the effect of

disorder,

we consider here a model

(some-

times called

"complex

directed

polymers")

in which directed walks

acquire

random

phases

with each

step.

Thin model may be viewed as an extension of "directed

polymers" [8-13],

a model in which walks

acquire

random

amplitudes,

and is

appropriate

in the

presence

of a

strong magnetic

field or

magnetic impurities.

The transverse fluctuations of directed

polymer

in I+I dimensions with uncorrelated radomness have been found to scale with "time"

(distance

measured

along

the

directed

axh)

as:

(~2(t))~

c~

t2" (where )R

indicates

averaging

over the

randomness)

with

v =

2/3,

and the

sample-to-sample

fluctuations in the walk's free energy have been found to

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614 JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I N°5

scale as: AF

=

((F F)R)~)~~~

c~ t~ with w

=

1/3.

We aim to examine similar

quantities

in

R

the case of directed walks with random

phases by

means of the

replica

trick. These models may also be useful in the

study

of

light propagating

in a random media

[14, 15].

In two dimensions

(2d),

the wavefunction it

(~t, t)

of an electron at time t

(position along

the directed

axh)

and

(tranverse) position

~i is

given

in the continuum limit

by

the sum of all directed walks

connecting (~i, t)

to

(0, 0),

which in the

path integral

formulation can be written:

(~<>t) k

4t

(~t, t)

CK

/

D~ ~

eXp

~ /

dt

(+t)

+ I

/

dt B

(~t, t)

,

(1)

(0, 0)

where the first term

/

dt

(ii

)~

provides

the

exponenthl decay

of the localized wave functions and the second term 8

(~i, t)

is a random variable

corresponding

to the

phase. it(~, t)

satisfies the

following equation:

~~ ~~

~ ~~ ~~~' ~~ ~' ~~~

The conductance between the sites

(0, 0)

and

(~, t)

is

proportional

to the

probability

for the electron to

hop ([it[2(~, t)) Analysb [2, 3]

indicates that the

logatithm

of

the

conductance is

given by

the average of the

logarithm

over the different realizations of the

dhorder; consequently, (log (it* ~))~

is of

primary

interest. lb facilitate the

log-averaging,

one can

implement

the

replica trick,

in which one averages the

replicated quantity, ((it*it)" ((~(~)

,

t))~

((it* it)" ((~(~))

,

t)

c~

~~~~~~

~~ ~~

D~(~~

exp

(- ( /

dt

(k(~~)

)

~ (1°1, °) r=I

x

exp

I

( /

dt

er8 ~(~~, t)

,

(3a)

r=I R

+1, ill<r<n;

whereer=

-I, ifn+I<r<2n.

The above

expression

is a sum over the rea1i2ations of 2n directed

paths

which connect

(0, 0)

to

(~(~), t)

with random

phases era (~i, t) acquired along

each

path.

The first n

paths

arise from

it;

the second n from it*.

Assuming

that 8 is

normally

dbtributed with:

je(~, t)

e

(~', t'))~

=

2c',2 (t t')

u

(~ ~')

,

(3b)

leads to the

following:

((it*iP)" ((~(~))

,

t)

c~

~~~~~~

~~ ~~

D~(~~

exp

(- ( /

dt

+(~~)~).

~ (1°1, °) r=I

x exp

-c'a2 ( ( /

dt

erer,u

~)~~ )~'~) l. (3c)

r=I r'=I

The

averaging

results in interactions among the

replica

with

magnitudes proportional

to the vari-

ance [8]. Notice that

oppositely "charged" replica (where

e; is the

charge)

attract and

similarly

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charged replica repel

and that there are

n2

such attractions and

n(n I)

such

repulsions

a net of n attractions. lb obtain this

result,

one

ignores

the

compactness

of the

phase,

wllich

only

seems reasonable when the variance b

quite

small

(a2

<

1)

The

periodicity

of the

phases

may

be crucial but its

study

is

beyond

the

scope

of the

present investigation.

We will denote

log (it*it) by

F

(the analog

of the free

energy).

Information about the

log-

average

(F)R

=

log (it* it))~

is then obtained

by examining

the cumulant

expansion [8]:

lli~*i~)")R

=

xP1i§ )

((1°g (i~* i~))')~ (4)

I=i

When

adopting

this

method,

one b faced with the difficulties of

solving

the

resulting (interacting) problem

for

arbitrary

n.

((it* it)" )~ (the "propagator")

can be

expanded

in terms of functions

#;

1(i~*i~)")R

= GSS

((~(~~), 1°1; t)

=

£ ~li(1°1)~li ((~)~~))

exP

I-Eitl, (5)

where

#;

are

eigenfunctions

of the Hamiltonian:

2n fi2

255

H(n)

=

~

fi + 2C

~j

eye;

U

(~;

~;

,

(6)

I=I

~~i

I<I

(with

k

= I and c =

c'a2/2

and

E;

are the

corresponding eigenenergies.

Since the

ground

state

(#o> Eo)

dominates the

long-time behavior,

we can concentrate on it

[9].

Assume that the

ground-state

energy has the form

Eo(n)

= ein,-

e2nP.

Then

fl

is related to the

exponents

w and v

through [7, 8, 16]:

2v-1=w= ~

(7)

fl

The first

scaling

relation has been confirmed for the random

amplitude

case

(directed polymers),

but it is less established for the random

phase

case.

We concentrate on two

types

of correlations:

(I)

disorder with

short-range

correlations

u(~)

c~

b(~)

for which

contradictory

results have been claimed

(see below);

and

(2)

dborder with

long-

range correlations

u(~)

c~

~2,

which has been studied in the directed

polymer

case

only.

1.

Shod-range

correlations.

First we will consider the version of the

problem

with uncorrelated

randomness, I.e., u(~)

+w

b(~).

In 2d random directed

polymer

it leads to an

exactly

solvable Hamiltonian with a

ground-state

energy:

Eo(n)

= c2

(n n~) /12 (for

all

n).

Kardar [8] has

exploited

this result and the

scaling

relations above to obtain

fl

=

3,

w

=

1/3,

and v =

2/3.

Parisi

[10, 12]

and M6zard

[12, 13]

have re-examined the

problem

and found some evidence for a weak

replica symmetry breaking,

which effects no

change

in the

previous scaling

results.

Unlike the random

amplitude problem just mentioned,

the random

phase problem

leads to a Hamiltonian which is not

exactly

solvable

(I.e. integrable),

as evidenced

by

the fact that the

Yang-Baxter

conditions are not satisfied. Directed

Feynman paths

with random

phases

have been

simulated; however,

there remains a

discrepancy

among the simulations. Medina et al [4] have

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616 JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I N°5

performed

a simulation on a square lattice in which an

independent

random

phase (with

a unTorm

distribution,

0 < 9 <

2~)

was associated with each bond

belonging

to the walk

They

have found that the

quantities ([~])~)

and

[~2]~~)

have

asymptotic scaling t2"

with v

= 0.68 +

0.05;

while We difference

(( (~2]

~~)

([z])~))

~~~ scales as

tl/2

On the other

hand, Zhang

[5j has found in his

simulation:

([[~]av[)

c~ iv with v = 0.74 + 0.01 and

(( (~2]

~~)

([~])~))

~~~ c~

tl/2.

lb add credence to these

simulations, analytic arguments

have been

proposed.

Medina et al [4] have

argued

that a bond

belonging

to a walk

arising

form it" must also

belong

to a walk from

(it*)" otherwise, averaging

over the

phase

would

give

zero

(when

the distribution is uniform and uncorrelated to other

bonds). Hence,

walks fornl

tightly-bound (conjugate) pairs.

When two

pairs

meet,

they

can switch

partners, leading

to a statistical

(exchange)

interaction.

Thus,

one

recovers the attractive .boson

problem (and fl=3)

with

pairs replacing particles

and the

exchange

interaction

replacing

the delta function attraction. Note that thb is

essentially

a

strong

disorder

argument (renormalization

studies

suggest

a flow to

strong

disorder

[4])

about a

system

on a lattice and that it maintains the

compactness

of

phase. Zhang

has

presented

an

argument

based on

Hartree

theory

[6] with a

screening

effect. The n net attractive interactions are redistributed among the total

n(2n 1)

interactions

yielding

once

again

the attractive delta function

problem by

this time with an effective

coupling

constant c"

+w

cn~l/2

which leads to

fl

= 2.

Clearly

these

conflicting arguments

and numerical results call for further

investigation

into this model. We have thus

opted

to examine the

large

and small n behavior of this

intriguing

Hamiltonian via various trial wave-functions. For

large

n, a lower bound on

fl

of 5

/3

can be found

by using

the

following

trial wavefunction:

if "

ifrep

(Xl> Zni

L) ilrep(Zn +1,

,

z2ni

L), (8)

where

itrep

is the wavefunction for

repulsive

bosons in a box of

length

L

(with periodic boundary conditions),

where L is used as a variational

parameter [17].

The energy h

separated

into two

pieces.

The first h the energy due to the attractive interactions cum;ke and h

readily

calculated:

eunuke =

-2cnp,

where p is the

density

of one

charge (p

= n

IL).

The second is the kinetic and

repulsive potential energies

eiike and is

equal

to the energy of the ld

repulsive

boson

problem, provided by

the Bethe ansatz. In the

high density limit,

Lieb and

Liniger [18]

and

subsequently

Gaudin

[19]

derived the

following expression:

e,i~~in,p)

= 2n

op

)pi/2c3/2

+

19)

16 this must be added a kinetic energy per

particle

of

~2 /L2,

to allow for localization within a

length

L. Then the minimization with

respect

to L leads to

Eo

< eiike + euni~ke c~

-n~/3.

This

bound

fl

> 5

/3

is the

analog

of the bound

fl

> 7

IS

found

by Dyson [20]

for the 3d

system

of boscns

interacting

via a Coulomb

potential (u(i,)

c~ eie;

/r)

The details of

calculating

this

bound,

as well as

arguments proposing

that indeed

fl

= 5

/3,

will be

presented

elsewhere

[17j.

If the attractions were

stronger

than the

repulsions (even by

the

slightest amount),

then the p terms in efike and eun,;ke would not

cancel, resulting

in

fl

= 3. In fact in that case, many trial wave- functions would

yield fl

= 3

(for example,

a wavefunction of the Hartree

type) [17j.

The attractions would be

stronger

if the

problem

called for random

amplitudes

in addition to the random

phases.

(On

the other

hand,

if the

repulsions

were

stronger

than the

attractions,

then similar

arguments give fl

=

[17j.)

The

system

with

equal strengths

is

quite

delicate. This

fl

= 5

/3

solution may

prove

unstable to additional considerations which were irrelevant in the

purely

attractive case, such as

higher

order interactions.

Moreover, taking

the

periodicity

of the

phase

into account could alter the Hamiltonian in a

significant

way.

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The

fl

= 5

/3

result was obtained

using

wavefunctions of the

product-type

with no additional at- tractive correlations. While such a choice

maybe justifiable

for

large

n

[17j,

it h

clearly inadequate

for small n. The best variational wavefunction we have found for small n is of the form:

n n

16 =

exp

-a

£ £ [~i

~n+; + b

£ ((~i

q +

[~n+;

~n+; [)

,

(10)

I j I<I<I<n

which b motivated

by

the

groundstate

of the attractive boson

system.

The variational calculations of

£o(n)

=

(16[H(n)

[16)ruin for small n

provide

evidence for an

exchange

interaction among

pairs.

The

energy

for a

pair £o(I)

b

-c2/2;

while the energy per

pair (£o(n) In) (found by numerically minimizing (H(nj)

with

respect

to a and under the

normalizability

conditions a > 0 and <

a)

are

-0.609c~, 0.725c2, 0.837c2

and

0.943c2,

for n

=

2, 3,

4 and

5, respectively. (See Fig.

I for a

plot

of

£o(n)

versus

n.)

s

4.0

3.0

2.0

1-o

0

0 1 2 3 4 S

n

Fig.

1. The values of

Eo(n)

obtained

variationally

for n

= o 5. The solid line is the best fit to these

point using

the form:

Eo(n)

=

(earl

+

(0.500 e)n)

Mith e = 0.122 and fl

= 1.952

(see

the text for other

possibilities.).

We have fit the variational values to the

expression ij(n)

=

(enP

+

(0.5t© e)n)

,

where the

exact results

£o(0)

=

0and£o(1)

=

-0.500(fore

=

I)

are built

directly

into this from.

(We

assume a "smooth" behavior at n

=

I.)

The linear term follows from the

(undisputed)

linear increase of the average "free

energy" (F)R

with t. The best fit to the

remaining

four

points (n

=

2, 3, 4, 5)

has e

= 0.122 and an effective

exponent fl

= 1.952.

(See Fig. I.)

With

only

two

parameters

to

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618 JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I N°5

fit,

we can

emphasize

"small" n

by fitting only

to the values at n =

2,

3

(e

= 0.092 and

fl

=

2.127)

or

"larger"

n

by fitting only

the

points

n =

4,

5

(e

= 0.132 and

fl

=

1.914).

From these values

we see that the data do not conform to such a

simple expression. Supposing

nevertheless that the

expression captures

the n - 0

asymptotic behavior,

we

propose

that the effective

exponent fl

increases with

decreasing

n. It h

plausible

that this trend continues to smaller n and that

implies fl

> 2.127 in thb

range,

in contrast to the

proposed fl

=

5/3

behavior for

large

n.

2.

Long-range

correlations.

Next we consider a

toy

model with soluble

quadratic

correlations introduced

by

Parisi in the ran- dom

amplitude

case

[iii.

The

correxpqnding

Hamiltonian

H(n)

h:

For this

problem

one can derive the "full

propagator' Gn ((~; )

,

(0) t) (see Eq. (5)).

lntroduc-

ing

normal

modes,

one finds a

single plane

wave mode

(yi

the center of

mass)

and

(n I)

harmonic oscillator modes

(y;

with 2 < I <

n)

each with

frequency an1/2

The

ground-state energy

h

given by Eo(n)

=

(n I)nl/2a (for

all n >

I).

The full

propagator

h the

product

of the

propagators

for the individual

(independent)

modes. Recall that the

propagator

for a free

particle

is:

G(~, 0; t)

=

(£)

exp

(-~) (12)

~

~

and that for the harmonic oscillator with

frequency

wo

Iwo

=

ani12)

is:

w~ 1/2 w~

G(~, 0; t)

~

=

(p

coth

(won)) exp (-

~

coth

(wet)

~

(13)

~

Hence,

the full

propagator

h:

Gn ((~;), 0; t)

=

N(t) xp1- ~

'l~~~

coth

(ant/2t) f ))

,

(14a)

;=2

where

N(t)

=

eXp -) log(2~) log(t)

)a~t~

+

~ a~t~

+

~a~t~

+ O

(n~)

,

(14b)

~

which agrees with

equations (13)-(15)

in reference

[11].

Note that the short-time behavior h that of a

non-interacting system

as has been

suggested [9, lo, 13].

The

n2t4

term in

N(t)

indicates that

w = 2. From thin

propagator

one can calculate

quantities

such as

(~))

and the n

- 0 limit can be taken without any

difficulty;

it

yields:

~~~io~~~~

'~~~

~ ~' ~~~~

as found

by

Parhi

[I ii.

Notice that the t - oo limit and the n - 0 limit do not commute

[11,

13]

and that the fluctuations are more than ballhtic.

Despite

the unusual

result,

the

scaling

relation

(8)

(Eq. (7~)

still holds

(fl

=

1/2,

w =

2,

v =

3/2).

This

system

can be solved in d dimensions and

yields

the same result

independent

of d.

The Hamiltonian

corresponding

to the random

phase

case can also be solved

exactly

when the interactions are

quadratic.

The Hamiltonian is:

255

fi2

~ ~

H(n)

"

£

$

~'

£~i~i (~i ~i) (16)

I=I S I<I

Again,

one can introduce normal modes. This time there are

(2n 1) plane

wave modes

(z;

with

I < I <

2n-1)

and one harmonic oscillator mode

(z~n)

with

frequency (2n)1/2a;

the

ground-state

energy is

Eo

=

(2n)

II

2a.

The

propagator

associated with this Hamiltonian is:

On ((z;

,

0; t)

=

fl(t)

exp

(- ~f z) ~~(~~~~

coth

(a(2n) ~/~t) z(~

,

(17a)

t ,_~

where

~

~~~~

~~~ ~

~°~~~~~

~ ~°~~~~

'~~~) ~ '~~~

~ ~ ~~~~ ~~~~~

If one

naively

takes the n

- 0 limit of

(~)),

one finds:

(~))

=

a2t~

+ t. This is of course

inadmissible

(for large t)

and

provides

a

strong

indication that a more

sophisticated

treatment of the n - 0 limit is

required (e.g. replica syrnmetry breaking).

In

conclusion,

we have

applied

the

replica approach

to two models of directed walks with ran- dom

phases:

the first has disorder with

short-range correlations,

and the second has dhorder with

long-range

correlations. Each leads to a

2n-body

Hamiltonian with

competing

interactions. We have studied the

large

and small

(finite)

n behavior of each model.

In the

short-range

case, the Halniltonian is more difficult to handle than its random

ampli-

tude

counterpart,

which is

exactly

solvable. We have

employed

trial wavefunctions to

study

the

dependence

on n and have found different behavior for

large

n and small

(finite)

n. With the

interpolation

between

large

and small n

uncertain,

a continuation to n - 0 seems

premature.

Moreover,

we have found it to be a very delicate

system

the

slightest @nbalance

in the interac- tion

strengths changing

the

large

n behavior

significantly.

This

instability

rakes the issue of the

periodicity

of the

phase,

which was

ignored

in order to obtain the Hamiltonian. A proper treat- ment of the

phase

could

very

well

upset

this balance. Tl1ese issues should be addressed in the future.

In the

long-range

case, we have found an exact solution

using

normal modes for all

integer

n > I.

Nevertheless,

even in thin

simple

model of a random

phase system,

there have arisen

complications

in

taking

the n - 0 limit not encountered in its random

amplitude counterpart.

Recently

weak and

strong replica symmetry breakings (depending

on the correlations of the

disorder)

have been found in the interface

(directed polymer)

case

[12].

The

complexities

en-

countered in the

n - 0 behavior in the random

phase

models studied here are indicative that

replica symmetry breaking

of some sort also may occur in these

systems.

Acknowledgements.

The research was

supported

in

part by

the U.S.

Department

of

Energy

under

grant

No. DE-FG02- 88ER40425 at the

University

of Rochester.

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