ON THE LOW-ENERGY SPECTRUM OF SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN Φ4THEORIES

DOI10.1142/S0217732311035067zbMATH Open1210.81071arXiv1101.1894OpenAlexW3100639674MaRDI QIDQ2995587FDOQ2995587

M. Consoli

Publication date: 27 April 2011

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The low-energy spectrum of a one-component, spontaneously broken Phi^4 theory is generally believed to have the same simple massive form sqrt{{�f p}^2 + m^2_h} as in the symmetric phase where < Phi >=0. However, in lattice simulations of the 4D Ising limit of the theory, the two-point connected correlator and the connected scalar propagator show deviations from a standard massive behaviour that do not exist in the symmetric phase. As a support for this observed discrepancy, I present a variational, analytic calculation of the energy spectrum E_1({�f p}) in the broken phase. This analytic result, while providing the trend E_1({�f p})sim sqrt{{�f p}^2 + m^2_h} at large |{�f p}|, gives an energy gap E_1(0)< m_h, even when approaching the infinite-cutoff limit Lambda o infty with that infinitesimal coupling lambda sim 1/ln Lambda suggested by the standard interpretation of "triviality" within leading-order perturbation theory. I also compare with other approaches and discuss the more general implications of the result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1894

zbMATH Keywords

symmetry breakingenergy spectrum\(\Phi ^{4}\) theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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