English

TBA and TCSA with boundaries and excited states

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study the spectrum of the scaling Lee-Yang model on a finite interval from two points of view: via a generalisation of the truncated conformal space approach to systems with boundaries, and via the boundary thermodynamic Bethe ansatz. This allows reflection factors to be matched with specific boundary conditions, and leads us to propose a new (and non-minimal) family of reflection factors to describe the one relevant boundary perturbation in the model. The equations proposed previously for the ground state on an interval must be revised in certain regimes, and we find the necessary modifications by analytic continuation. We also propose new equations to describe excited states, and check all equations against boundary truncated conformal space data. Access to the finite-size spectrum enables us to observe boundary flows when the bulk remains massless, and the formation of boundary bound states when the bulk is massive.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9712197,
  title  = {TBA and TCSA with boundaries and excited states},
  author = {Patrick Dorey and Andrew Pocklington and Roberto Tateo and Gerard Watts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9712197},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

25 pages, LaTeX 2e, 8 figures, uses epsf, amssymb, cite. Revised version: explanations expanded, normalisation of the boundary field corrected, two figures and three references added