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A bstract We study Ising Field Theory (the scaling limit of Ising model near the Curie critical point) in pure imaginary external magnetic field. We put particular emphasis on the detailed structure of the Yang-Lee edge singularity. While the leading singular behavior is controlled by the Yang-Lee fixed point (= minimal CFT $$ \mathcal{M} $$ M 2 / 5 ), the fine structure of the subleading singular terms is determined by the effective action which involves a tower of irrelevant operators. We use numerical data obtained through the “Truncated Free Fermion Space Approach” to estimate the couplings associated with two least irrelevant operators. One is the operator $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ , and we use the universal properties of the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ deformation to fix the contributions of higher orders in the corresponding coupling parameter α . Another irrelevant operator we deal with is the descendant L_ 4 $$ \overline{L} $$ L ¯ _ 4 ϕ of the relevant primary ϕ in $$ \mathcal{M} $$ M 2 / 5 . The significance of this operator is that it is the lowest dimension operator which breaks integrability of the effective theory. We also establish analytic properties of the particle mass M (= inverse correlation length) as the function of complex magnetic field.
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Scaling dimension of the 4pi -flux monopole operator in four-flavor three-dimensional QED using lattice simulation
We numerically address the issue of which monopole operators are relevant under renormalization group flow in three-dimensional parity-invariant noncompact QED with four flavors of massless two-component Dirac fermion. Using lattice simulation and finite-size scaling analysis of the free energy to introduce monopole-antimonopole pairs in N = 4 and N = 12 flavor noncompact QED3, we estimate the infrared scaling dimensions of monopole operators that introduce 2π and 4π fluxes around them. We first show that the estimates for the monopole scaling dimensions are consistent with the large-N expectations for N =12 QED3. Applying the same procedure in N = 4 QED3, we estimate the scaling dimension of 4π flux monopole operator to be 3.7(3), which allows the possibility of the operator being irrelevant. This finding offers support to the scenario in which higher-flux monopoles are irrelevant deformations to the Dirac spin liquid phase that could be realized on certain non-bipartite lattices by forbidding 2π - flux monopoles.
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- PAR ID:
- 10505000
- Publisher / Repository:
- Physical Review D
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Volume:
- 109
- Issue:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 2470-0010
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.034507
