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Ginzburg-Landau description for multicritical Yang-Lee models

Statistical Mechanics 2024-08-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We revisit and extend Fisher's argument for a Ginzburg-Landau description of multicritical Yang-Lee models in terms of a single boson Lagrangian with potential φ2(iφ)n\varphi^2 (i \varphi)^n. We explicitly study the cases of n=1,2n=1,2 by a Truncated Hamiltonian Approach based on the free massive boson perturbed by PT\boldsymbol P \boldsymbol T symmetric deformations, providing clear evidence of the spontaneous breaking of PT\boldsymbol P \boldsymbol T symmetry. For n=1n=1, the symmetric and the broken phases are separated by the critical point corresponding to the minimal model M(2,5)\mathcal M(2,5), while for n=2n=2, they are separated by a critical manifold corresponding to the minimal model M(2,5)\mathcal M(2,5) with M(2,7)\mathcal M(2,7) on its boundary. Our numerical analysis strongly supports our Ginzburg-Landau descriptions for multicritical Yang-Lee models.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2404.06100,
  title  = {Ginzburg-Landau description for multicritical Yang-Lee models},
  author = {Máté Lencsés and Alessio Miscioscia and Giuseppe Mussardo and Gábor Takács},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.06100},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

28 pages, 10 figures

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