Codina Cotar (University College of London)
It is a famous result of statistical mechanics that, at low enough temperature, the random field Ising model is disorder relevant for d<=2, i.e. the phase transition between uniqueness/non-uniqueness of Gibbs measures disappears, and disorder irrelevant otherwise (Aizenman-Wehr 1990). Generally speaking, adding disorder to a model tends to destroy the non-uniqueness of Gibbs measures.
In this talk we consider – in non-convex potential regime – a random gradient
model with disorder in which the interface feels like a bulk term of random fields. We show that this model is disorder relevant with respect to the question of uniqueness of gradient Gibbs measures for a class of non-convex potentials and a disorders.
No previous knowledge of gradient models will be assumed in the talk