Overlap renormalization group transformations for disordered systems

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel overlap-based renormalization group method for disordered systems, enabling the determination of critical points and exponents without renormalizing random couplings, applicable to phase transitions characterized by overlap order parameters.

Contribution

The paper develops an overlap renormalization group approach that simplifies analysis of disordered systems and their phase transitions by focusing on the overlap order parameter.

Findings

Determined critical fixed point and four critical exponents for 3D Edwards-Anderson model.

Introduced a method to couple the overlap order parameter to study symmetry-breaking.

Proposed applicability of overlap transformations to any phase transition characterized by an overlap order parameter.

Abstract

We establish a renormalization group approach which is implemented on the degrees of freedom defined by the overlap of two replicas to determine the critical fixed point and to extract four critical exponents for the phase transition of the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson model. In addition, we couple the overlap order parameter to a fictitious field and introduce it within the two-replica Hamiltonian of the system to study its explicit symmetry-breaking with the renormalization group. Overlap transformations do not require a renormalization of the random couplings of a system to extract the critical exponents associated with the relevant variables of the renormalization group. We conclude by discussing the applicability of such transformations in the study of any phase transition which is fully characterized by an overlap order parameter.