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Truncated Hilbert space approach to the 2d $\phi^{4}$ theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-23 v3

Abstract

We apply the massive analogue of the truncated conformal space approach to study the two dimensional ϕ4\phi^{4} theory in finite volume. We focus on the broken phase and determine the finite size spectrum of the model numerically. We interpret the results in terms of the Bethe-Yang spectrum, from which we extract the infinite volume masses and scattering matrices for various couplings. We compare these results against semiclassical analysis and perturbation theory. We also analyze the critical point of the model and confirm that it is in the Ising universality class.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06901,
  title  = {Truncated Hilbert space approach to the 2d $\phi^{4}$ theory},
  author = {Z. Bajnok and M. Lajer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06901},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

pdflatex, 35 pages with 29 pdf figures. Binary program is also attached, run on linux as: phi4 config.dat, v2: typos corrected, comparison to other works and references added, vacuum splitting analysis corrected, comparison to sine-Gordon TCSA added, v3: improved numerics, analysis on excited kink added, critical point investigated

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