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Application of Bootstrap to $\theta$-term

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-05-24 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice Quantum Physics

Abstract

Recently, novel numerical computation on quantum mechanics by using a bootstrap method was proposed by Han, Hartnoll, and Kruthoff. We consider whether this method works in systems with a θ\theta-term, where the standard Monte-Carlo computation may fail due to the sign problem. As a starting point, we study quantum mechanics of a charged particle on a circle in which a constant gauge potential is a counterpart of a θ\theta-term. We find that it is hard to determine physical quantities as functions of θ\theta such as E(θ)E(\theta), except at θ=0\theta=0 and π\pi. On the other hand, the correlations among observables for energy eigenstates are correctly reproduced for any θ\theta. Our results suggest that the bootstrap method may work not perfectly but sufficiently well, even if a θ\theta-term exists in the system.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.02701,
  title  = {Application of Bootstrap to $\theta$-term},
  author = {Yu Aikawa and Takeshi Morita and Kota Yoshimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.02701},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

16 pages, 5 figures.v3: matches published version in PRD, appendix on the details of the numerical bootstrap was added

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