Generalized devil's staircase and RG flows

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2023.116376MaRDI QIDQ6090422zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 14 November 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07640

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Modular lattices, Desarguesian lattices (06C05)

Abstract: We discuss a two-parameter renormalization group (RG) flow when parameters are organized in a single complex variable, $au$, with modular properties. Throughout the work we consider a special limit when the imaginary part of $au$ characterizing the disorder strength tends to zero. We argue that generalized Riemann-Thomae (gRT) function and the corresponding generalized Devil's staircase emerge naturally in a variety of physical models providing a universal behavior. In 1D we study the Anderson-like probe hopping in a weakly disordered lattice, recognize the origin of the gRT function in the spectral density of the probe and formulate specific RG procedure which gets mapped onto the discrete flow in the fundamental domain of the modular group $SL(2,Z)$. In 2D we consider the generalization of the phyllotaxis crystal model proposed by L. Levitov and suggest the explicit form of the effective potential for the probe particle propagating in the symmetric and asymmetric 2D lattice of defects. Analyzing the structure of RG flow equations in the vicinity of saddle points we claim emergence of BKT-like transitions at $mIm,auo0$. We show that the RG-like dynamics in the fundamental domain of $SL(2,Z)$ for asymmetric lattices asymptotically approaches various ``metallic ratios (among which the ``Silver ratio is one of the examples). For a Hubbard model of particles on a ring interacting with long-ranged potentials we investigate the dependence of the ground state energy on the potential and demonstrate by combining numerical and analytical tools the emergence of the generalized Devil's staircase. Also we conjecture a bridge between a Hubbard model and a phyllotaxis.

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