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On asymptotic behaviour in truncated conformal space approach

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-02 v2 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

The Truncated conformal space approach (TCSA) is a numerical technique for finding finite size spectrum of Hamiltonians in quantum field theory described as perturbations of conformal field theories. The truncation errors of the method have been systematically studied near the UV fixed point (when the characteristic energy related to the coupling is less than the truncation cutoff) where a good theoretical understanding has been achieved. However numerically the method demonstrated a good agreement with other methods for much larger values of the coupling when the RG flow approaches a new fixed point in the infrared. In the present paper we investigate this regime for a number of boundary RG flows testing the leading exponent and truncation errors. We also study the flows beyond the first fixed point which have been observed numerically but yet lack a theoretical understanding. We show that while in some models such flows approximate reversed physical RG flows, in other models the spectrum approaches a stable regime that does not correspond to any local boundary condition. Furthermore we find that in general the flows beyond the first fixed point are very sensitive to modifications of the truncation scheme.

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@article{arxiv.1904.09616,
  title  = {On asymptotic behaviour in truncated conformal space approach},
  author = {Anatoly Konechny and Dermot McAteer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09616},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

v2: presentation restructured, general considerations are put forward into section 2, section on bulk flows removed, quality of all pictures and referencing improved; 40 pages, 22 figures, 11 tables; to appear in JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-23T08:45:43.864Z