Edge states and conformal boundary conditions in super spin chains and super sigma models

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.03.023zbMATH Open1215.82008arXiv1101.4361OpenAlexW2071871620WikidataQ58082262 ScholiaQ58082262MaRDI QIDQ545282FDOQ545282

Authors: H. Saleur, R. Bondesan, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen 

Publication date: 22 June 2011

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

Abstract: The sigma models on projective superspaces CP^{N+M-1|N} with topological angle theta=pi mod 2pi flow to non-unitary, logarithmic conformal field theories in the low-energy limit. In this paper, we determine the exact spectrum of these theories for all open boundary conditions preserving the full global symmetry of the model, generalizing recent work on the particular case M=0 [C. Candu et al, JHEP02(2010)015]. In the sigma model setting, these boundary conditions are associated with complex line bundles, and are labelled by an integer, related with the exact value of theta. Our approach relies on a spin chain regularization, where the boundary conditions now correspond to the introduction of additional edge states. The exact values of the exponents then follow from a lengthy algebraic analysis, a reformulation of the spin chain in terms of crossing and non-crossing loops (represented as a certain subalgebra of the Brauer algebra), and earlier results on the so-called one- and two-boundary Temperley Lieb algebras (also known as blob algebras). A remarkable result is that the exponents, in general, turn out to be irrational. The case M=1 has direct applications to the spin quantum Hall effect, which will be discussed in a sequel.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4361

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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