Quantum distillation of Hilbert spaces, semi-classics and anomaly matching

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2018)068zbMATH Open1396.81190arXiv1803.02430WikidataQ129352691 ScholiaQ129352691MaRDI QIDQ1783804FDOQ1783804

Authors: Gerald V. Dunne, Yuya Tanizaki, Mithat Ünsal 

Publication date: 21 September 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A symmetry-twisted boundary condition of the path integral provides a suitable framework for the semi-classical analysis of nonperturbative quantum field theories (QFTs), and we reinterpret it from the viewpoint of the Hilbert space. An appropriate twist with the unbroken symmetry can potentially produce huge cancellations among excited states in the state-sum, without affecting the ground states; we call this effect "quantum distillation". Quantum distillation can provide the underlying mechanism for adiabatic continuity, by preventing a phase transition under $S^1$ compactification. We revisit this point via the 't Hooft anomaly matching condition when it constrains the vacuum structure of the theory on $mathbb{R}^d$ and upon compactification. We show that there is a precise relation between the persistence of the anomaly upon compactification, the Hilbert space quantum distillation, and the semi-classical analysis of the corresponding symmetry-twisted path integrals. We motivate quantum distillation in quantum mechanical examples, and then study its non-trivial action in QFT, with the example of the 2D Grassmannian sigma model $mathrmGr(N,M)$. We also discuss the connection of quantum distillation with large-$N$ volume independence and flavor-momentum transmutation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02430

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zbMATH Keywords

nonperturbative effectssigma modelspath integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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