Double-scaling limit of the O(N)-symmetric anharmonic oscillator

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/44/442001zbMATH Open1276.81049arXiv1307.4348OpenAlexW1965832893MaRDI QIDQ2863642FDOQ2863642

Authors: Sarben Sarkar, Carl M. Bender 

Publication date: 25 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In an earlier paper it was argued that the conventional double-scaling limit of an O(N)-symmetric quartic quantum field theory is inconsistent because the critical coupling constant is negative and thus the integral representing the partition function of the critical theory does not exist. In this earlier paper it was shown that for an O(N)-symmetric quantum field theory in zero-dimensional spacetime one can avoid this difficulty if one replaces the original quartic theory by its PT-symmetric analog. In the current paper an O(N)-symmetric quartic quantum field theory in one-dimensional spacetime [that is, O(N)-symmetric quantum mechanics] is studied using the Schroedinger equation. It is shown that the global PT-symmetric formulation of this differential equation provides a consistent way to perform the double-scaling limit of the O(N)-symmetric anharmonic oscillator. The physical nature of the critical behavior is explained by studying the PT-symmetric quantum theory and the corresponding and equivalent Hermitian quantum theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4348

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal matrices (15B10) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Model quantum field theories (81T10)

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