An Exactly Solvable Model of Randomly Pinned Charge Density Waves in Two Dimensions

Abstract

The nature of the interplay between fluctuations and quenched random disorder is a long-standing open problem, particularly in systems with a continuous order parameter. This lack of a full theoretical treatment has been underscored by recent advances in experiments on charge density wave materials. To address this problem, we formulate an exactly solvable model of a two-dimensional randomly pinned incommensurate charge density wave, and use the large-$N$ technique to map out the phase diagram and order parameter correlations. Our approach captures the physics of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in the clean limit at large $N$. We pay particular attention to the roles of thermal fluctuations and quenched random field disorder in destroying long-range order, finding a novel crossover between weakly- and strongly-disordered regimes.

40 pages, 4 figures

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• Interplay of Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations in Two-Dimensional Randomly Pinned Charge Density Waves