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Monopole scaling dimension using Monte Carlo

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-11-02 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a viable Monte Carlo determination of the scaling dimensions ΔQ\Delta_Q of flux QQ Abelian monopoles through finite-size scaling analysis of the free energy to introduce the background field of classical Dirac monopole-antimonopole pair at critical points of three-dimensional lattice theories. We validate the method in free fermion theory, and by verifying the particle-vortex duality between the monopole scaling dimension at the inverse-XY fixed point and the charge scaling dimension at the XY fixed point. At the O(2)O(2) Wilson-Fisher fixed point, we determine the critical exponents Δ1=0.13(2)\Delta_1= 0.13(2), Δ2=0.29(1)\Delta_2=0.29(1) and Δ3=0.47(2)\Delta_3=0.47(2), which we find to be proportional to the finite-size critical spectrum of monopoles on square torus.

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@article{arxiv.1808.08970,
  title  = {Monopole scaling dimension using Monte Carlo},
  author = {Nikhil Karthik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08970},
  year   = {2018}
}
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