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Comparison of analytic and numerical results in the XY-model

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We study the two dimensional XY-model with high precision Monte Carlo techniques and investigate the continuum approach of the step-scaling function of its finite volume mass gap. The continuum extrapolated results are found consistent with analytic predictions for the finite volume energy spectrum based on the equivalence with sine-Gordon theory. To come to this conclusion it was essential to use an also predicted form of logarithmic decay of lattice artifacts for the extrapolation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0309052,
  title  = {Comparison of analytic and numerical results in the XY-model},
  author = {J. Balog and F. Knechtli and T. Korzec and U. Wolff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0309052},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure, Lattice2003(higgs)