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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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Shod Communication
Replica approach to directed Feynman paths
v4th random phases
Thomas
Blum,
YonathanShapb
and Daniel S. KoltunDepartment
ofPhysics
andAstronomy University
ofRochester, Rochester,
NYlM27-l0ll,
U.s.A.(Received
19Febmmy 1991, ticcepted11
March1991)
R6sum6. Los chemins de
Feynman dirigds qui
accumulent desphases
aldatoires fontpartie
des 6tudes r6centes de lapropagation
d'61ectrons ou d'ondesdlectromagnetiques
en milieux d6sordon- nds. Nous examinons leurspropridtds
d'£chelle en utilisant la th£orie desr£pliques.
Deux mod61esavec corrdlations de courte et de tr6s
longue port6e
en I+ I dimensions sent 6tud16s. Nous 6valuons lecomportement
bgrandes
etpetites
valeurs(finies)
de n des modHesquantiques
k 2n corps avec in-teractions attractives et
r6pulsives qui
en resultent. Noussoulignons
(es diflicult6squi surgissent
dans la Ii mite n - 0 et lapossibilitd
de brisure desymdtrie
desr£pliques.
-Abstract. Directed
Feynman paths
in I+I dimensions thatacquire
randomphases,
encountered in thestudy
of electron andlight propagation
in disorderedmedia,
are examinedby
means of thereplica
trick. Two models are considered one withshort-range correlations,
the other with verylong-range
correlations. Thelarge
and small(finite)
n behavior of theresulting 2n-body quantum
Hamiltonians with
competing
interactions is calculated. the difficulties that arise inextrapolating
the results to n - o and thepossibility
ofreplica symmetry breaking
are discussed.The
importance
of theforwardscattering
interference mechanism in the(hopping)
conduc-tivity
of insulators has beenpointed
outby
Shklovskii[ii.
Eachhop actually
consists of the su-perposition
of manyscatterings patlls.
Since the electrons areloca1i2ed,
eachpath's
contribu- tiondecays exponentially. Consequently,
modelsinvolving only
the shortest or "directed"paws
have been considered
[2-7j.
lbstudy
the effect ofdisorder,
we consider here a model(some-
times called
"complex
directedpolymers")
in which directed walksacquire
randomphases
with eachstep.
Thin model may be viewed as an extension of "directedpolymers" [8-13],
a model in which walksacquire
randomamplitudes,
and isappropriate
in thepresence
of astrong magnetic
field or
magnetic impurities.
The transverse fluctuations of directedpolymer
in I+I dimensions with uncorrelated radomness have been found to scale with "time"(distance
measuredalong
thedirected
axh)
as:(~2(t))~
c~t2" (where )R
indicatesaveraging
over therandomness)
withv =
2/3,
and thesample-to-sample
fluctuations in the walk's free energy have been found to614 JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I N°5
scale as: AF
=
((F F)R)~)~~~
c~ t~ with w=
1/3.
We aim to examine similarquantities
inR
the case of directed walks with random
phases by
means of thereplica
trick. These models may also be useful in thestudy
oflight 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 directedaxh)
and(tranverse) position
~i isgiven
in the continuum limitby
the sum of all directed walksconnecting (~i, t)
to(0, 0),
which in thepath 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
theexponenthl decay
of the localized wave functions and the second term 8(~i, t)
is a random variablecorresponding
to thephase. it(~, t)
satisfies thefollowing equation:
~~ ~~
~ ~~ ~~~' ~~ ~' ~~~
The conductance between the sites
(0, 0)
and(~, t)
isproportional
to theprobability
for the electron tohop ([it[2(~, t)) Analysb [2, 3]
indicates that thelogatithm
ofthe
conductance isgiven by
the average of thelogarithm
over the different realizations of thedhorder; consequently, (log (it* ~))~
is ofprimary
interest. lb facilitate thelog-averaging,
one canimplement
thereplica trick,
in which one averages thereplicated quantity, ((it*it)" ((~(~)
,
t))~
((it* it)" ((~(~))
,
t)
c~~~~~~~
~~ ~~D~(~~
exp(- ( /
dt(k(~~)
)
~ (1°1, °) r=I
x
exp
I
( /
dter8 ~(~~, 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 directedpaths
which connect(0, 0)
to(~(~), t)
with randomphases era (~i, t) acquired along
eachpath.
The first npaths
arise fromit;
the second n from it*.Assuming
that 8 isnormally
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 ( ( /
dterer,u
~)~~ )~'~) l. (3c)
r=I r'=I
The
averaging
results in interactions among thereplica
withmagnitudes proportional
to the vari-ance [8]. Notice that
oppositely "charged" replica (where
e; is thecharge)
attract andsimilarly
charged replica repel
and that there aren2
such attractions andn(n I)
suchrepulsions
a net of n attractions. lb obtain thisresult,
oneignores
thecompactness
of thephase,
wllichonly
seems reasonable when the variance b
quite
small(a2
<1)
Theperiodicity
of thephases
maybe crucial but its
study
isbeyond
thescope
of thepresent investigation.
We will denote
log (it*it) by
F(the analog
of the freeenergy).
Information about thelog-
average
(F)R
=log (it* it))~
is then obtainedby examining
the cumulantexpansion [8]:
lli~*i~)")R
=xP1i§ )
((1°g (i~* i~))')~ (4)
I=i
When
adopting
thismethod,
one b faced with the difficulties ofsolving
theresulting (interacting) problem
forarbitrary
n.((it* it)" )~ (the "propagator")
can beexpanded
in terms of functions#;
1(i~*i~)")R
= GSS((~(~~), 1°1; t)
=£ ~li(1°1)~li ((~)~~))
exPI-Eitl, (5)
where
#;
areeigenfunctions
of the Hamiltonian:2n fi2
255H(n)
=~
fi + 2C
~j
eye;U
(~;
~;,
(6)
I=I
~~i
I<I
(with
k= I and c =
c'a2/2
andE;
are thecorresponding eigenenergies.
Since theground
state(#o> Eo)
dominates thelong-time behavior,
we can concentrate on it[9].
Assume that the
ground-state
energy has the formEo(n)
= ein,-e2nP.
Thenfl
is related to theexponents
w and vthrough [7, 8, 16]:
2v-1=w= ~
(7)
fl
The first
scaling
relation has been confirmed for the randomamplitude
case(directed polymers),
but it is less established for the random
phase
case.We concentrate on two
types
of correlations:(I)
disorder withshort-range
correlationsu(~)
c~b(~)
for whichcontradictory
results have been claimed(see below);
and(2)
dborder withlong-
range correlations
u(~)
c~~2,
which has been studied in the directedpolymer
caseonly.
1.
Shod-range
correlations.First we will consider the version of the
problem
with uncorrelatedrandomness, I.e., u(~)
+w
b(~).
In 2d random directed
polymer
it leads to anexactly
solvable Hamiltonian with aground-state
energy:
Eo(n)
= c2(n n~) /12 (for
alln).
Kardar [8] hasexploited
this result and thescaling
relations above to obtain
fl
=3,
w=
1/3,
and v =2/3.
Parisi[10, 12]
and M6zard[12, 13]
have re-examined theproblem
and found some evidence for a weakreplica symmetry breaking,
which effects nochange
in theprevious scaling
results.Unlike the random
amplitude problem just mentioned,
the randomphase problem
leads to a Hamiltonian which is notexactly
solvable(I.e. integrable),
as evidencedby
the fact that theYang-Baxter
conditions are not satisfied. DirectedFeynman paths
with randomphases
have beensimulated; however,
there remains adiscrepancy
among the simulations. Medina et al [4] have616 JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I N°5
performed
a simulation on a square lattice in which anindependent
randomphase (with
a unTormdistribution,
0 < 9 <2~)
was associated with each bondbelonging
to the walkThey
have found that thequantities ([~])~)
and[~2]~~)
haveasymptotic scaling t2"
with v= 0.68 +
0.05;
while We difference(( (~2]
~~)([z])~))
~~~ scales astl/2
On the otherhand, Zhang
[5j has found in hissimulation:
([[~]av[)
c~ iv with v = 0.74 + 0.01 and(( (~2]
~~)([~])~))
~~~ c~tl/2.
lb add credence to these
simulations, analytic arguments
have beenproposed.
Medina et al [4] haveargued
that a bondbelonging
to a walkarising
form it" must alsobelong
to a walk from(it*)" otherwise, averaging
over thephase
wouldgive
zero(when
the distribution is uniform and uncorrelated to otherbonds). Hence,
walks fornltightly-bound (conjugate) pairs.
When twopairs
meet,they
can switchpartners, leading
to a statistical(exchange)
interaction.Thus,
onerecovers the attractive .boson
problem (and fl=3)
withpairs replacing particles
and theexchange
interaction
replacing
the delta function attraction. Note that thb isessentially
astrong
disorderargument (renormalization
studiessuggest
a flow tostrong
disorder[4])
about asystem
on a lattice and that it maintains thecompactness
ofphase. Zhang
haspresented
anargument
based onHartree
theory
[6] with ascreening
effect. The n net attractive interactions are redistributed among the totaln(2n 1)
interactionsyielding
onceagain
the attractive delta functionproblem by
this time with an effectivecoupling
constant c"+w
cn~l/2
which leads tofl
= 2.Clearly
theseconflicting arguments
and numerical results call for furtherinvestigation
into this model. We have thusopted
to examine thelarge
and small n behavior of thisintriguing
Hamiltonian via various trial wave-functions. For
large
n, a lower bound onfl
of 5/3
can be foundby using
thefollowing
trial wavefunction:if "
ifrep
(Xl> ZniL) ilrep(Zn +1,
,
z2ni
L), (8)
where
itrep
is the wavefunction forrepulsive
bosons in a box oflength
L(with periodic boundary conditions),
where L is used as a variationalparameter [17].
The energy hseparated
into twopieces.
The first h the energy due to the attractive interactions cum;ke and hreadily
calculated:eunuke =
-2cnp,
where p is thedensity
of onecharge (p
= nIL).
The second is the kinetic andrepulsive potential energies
eiike and isequal
to the energy of the ldrepulsive
bosonproblem, provided by
the Bethe ansatz. In thehigh density limit,
Lieb andLiniger [18]
andsubsequently
Gaudin
[19]
derived thefollowing expression:
e,i~~in,p)
= 2nop
)pi/2c3/2
+19)
16 this must be added a kinetic energy per
particle
of~2 /L2,
to allow for localization within alength
L. Then the minimization withrespect
to L leads toEo
< eiike + euni~ke c~-n~/3.
Thisbound
fl
> 5/3
is theanalog
of the boundfl
> 7IS
foundby Dyson [20]
for the 3dsystem
of boscnsinteracting
via a Coulombpotential (u(i,)
c~ eie;/r)
The details ofcalculating
thisbound,
as well asarguments proposing
that indeedfl
= 5
/3,
will bepresented
elsewhere[17j.
If the attractions were
stronger
than therepulsions (even by
theslightest amount),
then the p terms in efike and eun,;ke would notcancel, resulting
infl
= 3. In fact in that case, many trial wave- functions would
yield fl
= 3
(for example,
a wavefunction of the Hartreetype) [17j.
The attractions would bestronger
if theproblem
called for randomamplitudes
in addition to the randomphases.
(On
the otherhand,
if therepulsions
werestronger
than theattractions,
then similararguments give fl
=[17j.)
Thesystem
withequal strengths
isquite
delicate. Thisfl
= 5
/3
solution mayprove
unstable to additional considerations which were irrelevant in thepurely
attractive case, such ashigher
order interactions.Moreover, taking
theperiodicity
of thephase
into account could alter the Hamiltonian in asignificant
way.The
fl
= 5/3
result was obtainedusing
wavefunctions of theproduct-type
with no additional at- tractive correlations. While such a choicemaybe justifiable
forlarge
n[17j,
it hclearly 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
thegroundstate
of the attractive bosonsystem.
The variational calculations of£o(n)
=
(16[H(n)
[16)ruin for small nprovide
evidence for anexchange
interaction amongpairs.
The
energy
for apair £o(I)
b-c2/2;
while the energy perpair (£o(n) In) (found by numerically minimizing (H(nj)
withrespect
to a and under thenormalizability
conditions a > 0 and <a)
are
-0.609c~, 0.725c2, 0.837c2
and0.943c2,
for n=
2, 3,
4 and5, respectively. (See Fig.
I for a
plot
of£o(n)
versusn.)
s
4.0
3.0
2.0
1-o
0
0 1 2 3 4 S
n
Fig.
1. The values ofEo(n)
obtainedvariationally
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 otherpossibilities.).
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 builtdirectly
into this from.(We
assume a "smooth" behavior at n=
I.)
The linear term follows from the(undisputed)
linear increase of the average "freeenergy" (F)R
with t. The best fit to theremaining
fourpoints (n
=2, 3, 4, 5)
has e
= 0.122 and an effective
exponent fl
= 1.952.(See Fig. I.)
Withonly
twoparameters
to618 JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I N°5
fit,
we canemphasize
"small" nby fitting only
to the values at n =2,
3(e
= 0.092 andfl
=
2.127)
or
"larger"
nby fitting only
thepoints
n =4,
5(e
= 0.132 andfl
=1.914).
From these valueswe see that the data do not conform to such a
simple expression. Supposing
nevertheless that theexpression captures
the n - 0asymptotic behavior,
wepropose
that the effectiveexponent fl
increases with
decreasing
n. It hplausible
that this trend continues to smaller n and thatimplies fl
> 2.127 in thbrange,
in contrast to theproposed fl
=5/3
behavior forlarge
n.2.
Long-range
correlations.Next we consider a
toy
model with solublequadratic
correlations introducedby
Parisi in the ran- domamplitude
case[iii.
Thecorrexpqnding
HamiltonianH(n)
h:For this
problem
one can derive the "fullpropagator' Gn ((~; )
,
(0) t) (see Eq. (5)).
lntroduc-ing
normalmodes,
one finds asingle plane
wave mode(yi
the center ofmass)
and(n I)
harmonic oscillator modes(y;
with 2 < I <n)
each withfrequency an1/2
Theground-state energy
hgiven by Eo(n)
=
(n I)nl/2a (for
all n >I).
The fullpropagator
h theproduct
of thepropagators
for the individual(independent)
modes. Recall that thepropagator
for a freeparticle
is:G(~, 0; t)
=
(£)
exp(-~) (12)
~
~
and that for the harmonic oscillator with
frequency
woIwo
=ani12)
is:w~ 1/2 w~
G(~, 0; t)
~=
(p
coth(won)) exp (-
~
coth(wet)
~(13)
~
Hence,
the fullpropagator
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 anon-interacting system
as has beensuggested [9, lo, 13].
Then2t4
term inN(t)
indicates thatw = 2. From thin
propagator
one can calculatequantities
such as(~))
and the n- 0 limit can be taken without any
difficulty;
ityields:
~~~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 unusualresult,
thescaling
relation(Eq. (7~)
still holds(fl
=
1/2,
w =2,
v =3/2).
Thissystem
can be solved in d dimensions andyields
the same resultindependent
of d.The Hamiltonian
corresponding
to the randomphase
case can also be solvedexactly
when the interactions arequadratic.
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;
withI < I <
2n-1)
and one harmonic oscillator mode(z~n)
withfrequency (2n)1/2a;
theground-state
energy is
Eo
=(2n)
II2a.
Thepropagator
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 courseinadmissible
(for large t)
andprovides
astrong
indication that a moresophisticated
treatment of the n - 0 limit isrequired (e.g. replica syrnmetry breaking).
In
conclusion,
we haveapplied
thereplica approach
to two models of directed walks with ran- domphases:
the first has disorder withshort-range correlations,
and the second has dhorder withlong-range
correlations. Each leads to a2n-body
Hamiltonian withcompeting
interactions. We have studied thelarge
and small(finite)
n behavior of each model.In the
short-range
case, the Halniltonian is more difficult to handle than its randomampli-
tude
counterpart,
which isexactly
solvable. We haveemployed
trial wavefunctions tostudy
thedependence
on n and have found different behavior forlarge
n and small(finite)
n. With theinterpolation
betweenlarge
and small nuncertain,
a continuation to n - 0 seemspremature.
Moreover,
we have found it to be a very delicatesystem
theslightest @nbalance
in the interac- tionstrengths changing
thelarge
n behaviorsignificantly.
Thisinstability
rakes the issue of theperiodicity
of thephase,
which wasignored
in order to obtain the Hamiltonian. A proper treat- ment of thephase
couldvery
wellupset
this balance. Tl1ese issues should be addressed in the future.In the
long-range
case, we have found an exact solutionusing
normal modes for allinteger
n > I.
Nevertheless,
even in thinsimple
model of a randomphase system,
there have arisencomplications
intaking
the n - 0 limit not encountered in its randomamplitude counterpart.
Recently
weak andstrong replica symmetry breakings (depending
on the correlations of thedisorder)
have been found in the interface(directed polymer)
case[12].
Thecomplexities
en-countered in the
n - 0 behavior in the random
phase
models studied here are indicative thatreplica symmetry breaking
of some sort also may occur in thesesystems.
Acknowledgements.
The research was
supported
inpart by
the U.S.Department
ofEnergy
undergrant
No. DE-FG02- 88ER40425 at theUniversity
of Rochester.620 JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I N°5
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