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Truncated Conformal Space Approach for 2D Landau-Ginzburg Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-12-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We study the spectrum of Landau-Ginzburg theories in 1+1 dimensions using the truncated conformal space approach employing a compactified boson. We study these theories both in their broken and unbroken phases. We first demonstrate that we can reproduce the expected spectrum of a Φ2\Phi^2 theory (i.e. a free massive boson) in this framework. We then turn to Φ4\Phi^4 in its unbroken phase and compare our numerical results with the predictions of two-loop perturbation theory, finding excellent agreement. We then analyze the broken phase of Φ4\Phi^4 where kink excitations together with their bound states are present. We confirm the semiclassical predictions for this model on the number of stable kink-antikink bound states. We also test the semiclassics in the double well phase of Φ6\Phi^6 Landau-Ginzburg theory, again finding agreement.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1409.1494,
  title  = {Truncated Conformal Space Approach for 2D Landau-Ginzburg Theories},
  author = {Andrea Coser and Marco Beria and Giuseppe Brandino and Robert Konik and Giuseppe Mussardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1494},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

29 pages, 12 figures, v2: added discussion about the parameter beta, added references, other minor changes, published version