Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: We elucidate the effects of chiral quenched disorder on the scaling properties of pure systems by considering a reduced model that is a variant of the quenched disordered cubic anisotropic $\text{O}(N)$ model near its second-order phase transition. A generic short-ranged Gaussian disorder distribution is considered. For distributions not invariant under spatial inversion (hence chiral), the scaling exponents are found to depend continuously on a model parameter that describes the extent of inversion symmetry breaking. Experimental and phenomenological implications of our results are discussed.
Source: Physical Review E
Authors: Niladri Sarkar, Abhik Basu
Institution: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Language: English
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1985105408