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TT 56: Focus Session: Recent Progresses in Criticality in the Presence of Boundaries and Defects II (joint session DY/TT)

TT 56.3: Talk

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 15:45–16:00, A 151

Random Matrices and the Free Energy of Ising-Like Models with Disorder — •Nils Gluth, Thomas Guhr, and Fred Hucht — Fakultät für Physik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

We consider an Ising model with quenched surface disorder, the disorder average of the free energy is the main object of interest. Explicit expressions for the free energy distribution are difficult to obtain if the quenched surface spins take values of ± 1. Thus, we choose a different approach and model the surface disorder by Gaussian random matrices. The distribution of the free energy is calculated. We chose skew-circulant random matrices and compute the characteristic function of the free energy distribution. We show numerically the distribution becomes log-normal for sufficiently large dimensions of the disorder matrices, and in the limit of infinitely large matrices the distributions are Gaussian. Furthermore, we establish a connection to the central limit theorem.

Keywords: Random Matrix Theory; Ising model; Disorder