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Bootstrapping 2d $\phi^4$ Theory with Hamiltonian Truncation Data

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-09 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Lattice

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 s>0s>0 in the 2d ϕ4\phi^4 theory. We use the form factor of the stress tensor at s0s\le 0 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 ϕ4\phi^4 two-particle scattering amplitude also very nearly saturates these bounds, and moreover is extremely close to that of the sinh-Gordon/staircase model.

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@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

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