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Emerging Jordan blocks in the two-dimensional Potts and loop models at generic $Q$

Mathematical Physics 2024-04-01 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

It was recently suggested -- based on general self-consistency arguments as well as results from the bootstrap (arXiv:2005.07708, arXiv:2007.11539, arXiv:2007.04190) -- that the CFT describing the QQ-state Potts model is logarithmic for generic values of QQ, with rank-two Jordan blocks for L0L_0 and L0{\mkern 1.5mu\overline{\mkern-1.5mu L\mkern-1.5mu}\mkern 1.5mu}_0 in many sectors of the theory. This is despite the well-known fact that the lattice transfer matrix (or Hamiltonian) is diagonalizable in (arbitrary) finite size. While the emergence of Jordan blocks only in the limit LL\to\infty is perfectly possible conceptually, diagonalizability in finite size makes the measurement of logarithmic couplings (whose values are analytically predicted in arXiv:2007.11539, arXiv:2007.04190) very challenging. This problem is solved in the present paper (which can be considered a companion to arXiv:2007.11539), and the conjectured logarithmic structure of the CFT confirmed in detail by the study of the lattice model and associated "emerging Jordan blocks."

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@article{arxiv.2403.19830,
  title  = {Emerging Jordan blocks in the two-dimensional Potts and loop models at generic $Q$},
  author = {Lawrence Liu and Jesper Lykke Jacobsen and Hubert Saleur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.19830},
  year   = {2024}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2403.09881

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