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J. Phys. IV France
Volume 12, Numéro 9, November 2002
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| Page(s) | 311 - 312 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:20020422 | |
J. Phys. IV France 12 (2002) Pr9-311
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:20020422
Thermodynamics of disordered elastic systems in the Bragg glass phase
G. Schehr1, T. Giamarchi2 and P. Le Doussal11 LPTENS, UMR 8549 du CNRS, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
2 DPMC, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland
Abstract
We study the thermodynamics of a pinned quantum object when the elastic description applies, e.g.
in the Bragg glass phase for a crystal with point disorder or for a single elastic line. Using the replica variational
method we compute the specific heat both in the quantum and classical limits. In the quantum regime, we show
that the specific heat behaves - at low temperature - as
T3 in dimension
d = 2 and
d = 3.
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