Toolkit for General 2d Scalar Potential in LCT
Abstract
We present efficient algorithms for obtaining the Hamiltonian in Lightcone Conformal Truncation (LCT) for a 2d scalar field with a generic potential. We apply this method to the sine-Gordon and sinh-Gordon models in , and find precise agreement with integrability results when the scaling dimension of the deforming cosine/cosinh potential is in the range . The agreement provides additional evidence for a recent conjecture for how to compute the effective lightcone Hamiltonian in this class of models. In addition, to high precision, we provide the first direct confirmation for the conjectured self-duality of the sinh-Gordon model (, which relates . As the dimension approaches the upper limit from below, we show analytically that the Hamiltonian matrix elements exactly reproduce those of a free Majorana fermion, demonstrating how bosonization is manifested in the LCT basis. We comment on the possible extension of the approach to .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.12255,
title = {Toolkit for General 2d Scalar Potential in LCT},
author = {A. Liam Fitzpatrick and Emanuel Katz and Yuan Xin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.12255},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
30 pages, 11 figures, v2: minor fixes, v3: minor revision