Modular invariance, lattice field theories, and finite size corrections

zbMATH Open0932.60092arXivhep-th/9606137MaRDI QIDQ1301807FDOQ1301807

Authors: Charles Nash, Denjoe O'Connor 

Publication date: 13 March 2000

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a lattice theory treatment of certain one and two dimensional quantum field theories. In one dimension we construct a combinatorial version of a non-trivial field theory on the circle which is of some independent interest in itself while in two dimensions we consider a field theory on a toroidal triangular lattice. We take a continuous spin Gaussian model on a toroidal triangular lattice with periods $L_0$ and $L_1$ where the spins carry a representation of the fundamental group of the torus labeled by phases $u_0$ and $u_1$. We compute the {it exact finite size and lattice corrections}, to the partition function $Z$, for arbitrary mass $m$ and phases $u_i$. Summing $Z^{-1/2}$ over a specified set of phases gives the corresponding result for the Ising model on a torus. An interesting property of the model is that the limits $mightarrow0$ and $u_{i}ightarrow0$ do not commute. Also when $m=0$ the model exhibits a {it vortex critical phase} when at least one of the $u_i$ is non-zero. In the continuum or scaling limit, for arbitrary $m$, the finite size corrections to $-lnZ$ are {it modular invariant} and for the critical phase are given by elliptic theta functions. In the cylinder limit $L_{1}ightarrowinfty$ the ``cylinder charge $c(u_0,m^2{L}_0^2)$ is a non-monotonic function of $m$ that ranges from $2(1+6u_0(u_0-1))$ for $m=0$ to zero for $mightarrowinfty$ but from which one can determine the central charge $c$. The study of the continuum limit of these field theories provides a kind of quantum theoretic analog of the link between certain combinatorial and analytic topological quantities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9606137

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zbMATH Keywords

Ising modelnearest neighbour interactionscontinuum microscopic energy functionallattice couplingslattice Gaussian model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27) Miscellaneous applications of number theory (11Z05)

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