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arxiv: 1708.08364 · v3 · pith:WD3QIJAOnew · submitted 2017-08-28 · ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn · hep-th

A glassy phase in quenched disordered graphene and crystalline membranes

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We investigate the flat phase of $D$-dimensional crystalline membranes embedded in a $d$-dimensional space and submitted to both metric and curvature quenched disorders using a nonperturbative renormalization group approach. We identify a second order phase transition controlled by a finite-temperature, finite-disorder fixed point unreachable within the leading order of $\epsilon=4-D$ and $1/d$ expansions. This critical point divides the flow diagram into two basins of attraction: that associated to the finite-temperature fixed point controlling the long distance behaviour of disorder-free membranes and that associated to the zero-temperature, finite-disorder fixed point. Our work thus strongly suggests the existence of a whole low-temperature glassy phase for quenched disordered graphene, graphene-like compounds and, more generally, crystalline membranes.

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