Application of Bootstrap to $\theta$-term
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 -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 -term. We find that it is hard to determine physical quantities as functions of such as , except at and . On the other hand, the correlations among observables for energy eigenstates are correctly reproduced for any . Our results suggest that the bootstrap method may work not perfectly but sufficiently well, even if a -term exists in the system.
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