Random geometry at an infinite-randomness fixed point

Abstract

We study the low-energy physics of the critical (2+1)-dimensional random transverse-field Ising model. The one-dimensional version of the model is a paradigmatic example of a system governed by an infinite-randomness fixed point, for which many results on the distributions of observables are known via an asymptotically exact renormalization group (RG) approach. In two dimensions, the same RG rules have been implemented numerically, and demonstrate a flow to infinite randomness. However, analytical understanding of the structure of this RG has remained elusive due to the development of geometrical structure in the graph of interacting spins. To understand the character of the fixed point, we consider the RG flow acting on a joint ensemble of graphs and couplings. We propose that the RG effectively occurs in two stages: (1) randomization of the interaction graph until it belongs to a certain ensemble of random triangulations of the plane, and (2) a flow of the distributions of couplings to infinite randomness while the graph ensemble remains invariant. This picture is substantiated by a numerical RG in which one obtains a steady-state graph degree distribution and subsequently infinite-randomness scaling distributions of the couplings. Both of these aspects of the RG flow can be approximately reproduced in simplified analytical models.

arXiv comment28 pages, 13 figures

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