Flow equation approach to the sine-Gordon model

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00507-1zbMATH Open0971.81516arXivcond-mat/0006403OpenAlexW3104122965MaRDI QIDQ1587474FDOQ1587474

Authors: Stefan Kehrein 

Publication date: 28 November 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A continuous sequence of infinitesimal unitary transformations is used to diagonalize the quantum sine-Gordon model for �eta^2in(2pi,infty). This approach can be understood as an extension of perturbative scaling theory since it links weak- to strong-coupling behavior in a systematic expansion: a small expansion parameter is identified and this parameter remains small throughout the entire flow unlike the diverging running coupling constant of perturbative scaling. Our approximation consists in neglecting higher orders in this small parameter. We find very accurate results for the single-particle/hole spectrum in the strong-coupling phase and can describe the full crossover from weak to strong-coupling. The integrable structure of the sine-Gordon model is not used in our approach. Our new method should be of interest for the investigation of nonintegrable perturbations and for other strong-coupling problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0006403

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zbMATH Keywords

coupling crossoverinfinitesimal unitary transformationssingle-particle/hole spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10)

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• Flow‐equations for Hamiltonians
• Diagonalization of system plus environment Hamiltonians
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• Lectures on renormalization and asymptotic safety
• Exact renormalization group and Sine Gordon theory
• Renormalization Group Circuits for Weakly Interacting Continuum Field Theories

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