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Finite Density States in Integrable Conformal Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-23 v2

Abstract

We study states of large charge density in integrable conformal coset models. For the O(2) coset, we consider two different S-matrices, one corresponding to a Thirring mass perturbation and the other to the continuation to O(2+epsilon). The former leads to simplification in the conformal limit; the latter gives a more complicated description of the O(2) system, with a large zero mode sector in addition to the right- and left-movers. We argue that for the conformal O(2+2M|2M) supergroup coset, the S-matrix is given by the analog of the O(2+epsilon) construction.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0408162,
  title  = {Finite Density States in Integrable Conformal Field Theories},
  author = {Nelia Mann and Joseph Polchinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0408162},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

21 pages. To appear in "From Fields to Strings: Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics," in memory of Ian Kogan. v. 2: added references