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Toolkit for General 2d Scalar Potential in LCT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-05-15 v3 Statistical Mechanics

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 1+1d1+1d, and find precise agreement with integrability results when the scaling dimension Δ\Delta of the deforming cosine/cosinh potential is in the range Δ1 \Delta \leq 1. 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 (Δ<0)\Delta < 0), which relates Δ4/Δ\Delta \leftrightarrow 4/\Delta. As the dimension approaches the upper limit Δ=1\Delta=1 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 Δ>1\Delta > 1.

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@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

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