Tensor renormalization group at low temperatures: discontinuity fixed point

DOI10.1007/S00023-023-01289-YMaRDI QIDQ6191564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tom Kennedy, Slava Rychkov

Publication date 9 February 2024

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06669

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82Bxx) Applications of statistical mechanics to specific types of physical systems (82Dxx)

Abstract: We continue our study of rigorous renormalization group (RG) maps for tensor networks that was begun in arXiv:2107.11464. In this paper we construct a rigorous RG map for 2D tensor networks whose domain includes tensors that represent the 2D Ising model at low temperatures with a magnetic field $h$. We prove that the RG map has two stable fixed points, corresponding to the two ground states, and one unstable fixed point which is an example of a discontinuity fixed point. For the Ising model at low temperatures the RG map flows to one of the stable fixed points if $heq0$, and to the discontinuity fixed point if $h=0$. In addition to the nearest neighbor and magnetic field terms in the Hamiltonian, we can include small terms that need not be spin-flip invariant. In this case we prove there is a critical value $h_c$ of the field (which depends on these additional small interactions and the temperature) such that the RG map flows to the discontinuity fixed point if $h=h_c$ and to one of the stable fixed points otherwise. We use our RG map to give a new proof of previous results on the first-order transition, namely, that the free energy is analytic for $heq{h}_c$, and the magnetization is discontinuous at $h=h_c$. The construction of our low temperature RG map, in particular the disentangler, is surprisingly very similar to the construction of the map in arXiv:2107.11464 for the high temperature phase. We also give a pedagogical discussion of some general rigorous transformations for infinite dimensional tensor networks and an overview of the proof of stability of the high temperature fixed point for the RG map in arXiv:2107.11464.

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