Bootstrapping 2d $\phi^4$ Theory with Hamiltonian Truncation Data
Abstract
We combine the methods of Hamiltonian Truncation and the recently proposed generalisation of the S-matrix bootstrap that includes local operators to determine the two-particle scattering amplitude and the two-particle form factor of the stress tensor at in the 2d theory. We use the form factor of the stress tensor at and its spectral density computed using Lightcone Conformal Truncation (LCT), and inject them into the generalized S-matrix bootstrap set-up. The obtained results for the scattering amplitude and the form factor are fully reliable only in the elastic regime. We independently construct the "pure" S-matrix bootstrap bounds (bootstrap without including matrix elements of local operators), and find that the sinh-Gordon model and its analytic continuation the "staircase model" saturate these bounds. Surprisingly, the two-particle scattering amplitude also very nearly saturates these bounds, and moreover is extremely close to that of the sinh-Gordon/staircase model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2107.10286,
title = {Bootstrapping 2d $\phi^4$ Theory with Hamiltonian Truncation Data},
author = {Hongbin Chen and A. Liam Fitzpatrick and Denis Karateev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.10286},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
39 pages + appendices, 21 figures