Quenched random mass disorder in the large N theory of vector bosons

Abstract

We study the critical bosonic O(N) vector model with quenched random mass disorder in the large N limit. Due to the replicated action which is sometimes not bounded from below, we avoid the replica trick and adopt a traditional approach to directly compute the disorder averaged physical observables. At N=\infty, we can exactly solve the disordered model. The resulting low energy behavior can be described by two scale invariant theories, one of which has an intrinsic scale. At finite N, we find that the previously proposed attractive disordered fixed point at d=2 continues to exist at d=2+\epsilon spatial dimensions. We also studied the system in the 3<d<4 spatial dimensions where the disorder is relevant at the Gaussian fixed point. However, no physical attractive fixed point is found right below four spatial dimensions. Nevertheless, the stable fixed point at 2+\epsilon dimensions can still survive at d=3 where the system has experimental realizations. Some critical exponents are predicted in order to be checked by future numerics and experiments.