Geometry of bounded critical phenomena

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AB7F32MaRDI QIDQ5135033zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giacomo Gori, Andrea Trombettoni

Publication date 19 November 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08919

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorycorrelation functionscritical exponents and amplitudessurface effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

Abstract: We devise a geometric description of bounded systems at criticality in any dimension $d$. This is achieved by altering the flat metric with a space dependent scale factor $gamma(x)$, $x$ belonging to a general bounded domain $Omega$. $gamma(x)$ is chosen in order to have a scalar curvature to be constant and negative, the proper notion of curvature being -- as called in the mathematics literature -- the fractional Q-curvature. The equation for $gamma(x)$ is found to be the Fractional Yamabe Equation (to be solved in $Omega$) that, in absence of anomalous dimension, reduces to the usual Yamabe Equation in the same domain. From the scale factor $gamma(x)$ we obtain novel predictions for the scaling form of one-point correlation functions. A (necessary) virtue of the proposed approach is that it encodes and allows to naturally retrieve the purely geometric content of two-dimensional boundary conformal field theory. From the critical magnetization profile in presence of boundaries one can extract the scaling dimension of the order parameter, $Delt{a}_{p}hi$. For the 3D Ising model we find $Delt{a}_{p}hi=0.518142(8)$ which favorably compares (at the fifth decimal place) with the state-of-the-art estimate. A nontrivial prediction is the structure of two-point correlators at criticality. They should depend on the fractional Q-hyperbolic distance calculated from the metric, in turn depending only on the shape of the bounded domain and on $Delt{a}_{p}hi$. Numerical simulations of the 3D Ising model on a slab geometry are found to be in agreement with such predictions.

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• Critical behavior in spherical and hyperbolic spaces
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• Geometry of quasiminimal phase transitions

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• Surface Evolver

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