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连续多尺度纠缠重整化过程中的时空对称性和共形数据

Spacetime symmetries and conformal data in the continuous multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz

Qi Hu, Guifre Vidal

摘要:

将多尺度纠缠重整化模型(MERA)推广到连续系统,或cMERA [Haegeman等人,物理评论Lett,110,100402(2013)],预计将成为强相互作用量子场论的基态的一个强大的变分分析。在本文中,我们调查,在更简单的情况下,高斯cMERA的自由理论,在何种程度上的cMERA状态$|Ψ^Λ\rangle$与有限的UV截止$Λ$可以捕获的时空对称性的基态$|Ψ\rangle$。以1+1维自由玻色子共形场论(CFT)为例,建立了一个准局域么正变换$V$,将$|Ψ\rangle$映射到$|Ψ^Λ\rangle$,并给出了两个主要结果. (i)基态$|Ψ\rangle$的任何时空对称性也被$V$映射成cMERA $|Ψ^Λ\rangle$的时空对称性。然而,在CFT中,应力-能量张量$T_{μν}(x)$(所有时空对称生成元都是用它来表示的)是局部的,而相应的cMERA应力-能量张量$T_{μν}^Λ(x) = V T_{μν}(x) V^{\dagger}$是准局部的。(ii)从cMERA中,我们可以提取准局部标度算子$O^Λ_α(x)$,其特征在于与原始CFT完全相同的标度维度$Δ_α$、共形自旋$s_α$、算子乘积展开系数$C_{αβγ}$和中心电荷$c$。最后,我们认为,这些结果也应该适用于相互作用的理论。

英文摘要:

The generalization of the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) to continuous systems, or cMERA [Haegeman et al., Phys. Rev. Lett, 110, 100402 (2013)], is expected to become a powerful variational ansatz for the ground state of strongly interacting quantum field theories. In this paper we investigate, in the simpler context of Gaussian cMERA for free theories, the extent to which the cMERA state $|Ψ^Λ\rangle$ with finite UV cut-off $Λ$ can capture the spacetime symmetries of the ground state $|Ψ\rangle$. For a free boson conformal field theory (CFT) in 1+1 dimensions as a concrete example, we build a quasi-local unitary transformation $V$ that maps $|Ψ\rangle$ into $|Ψ^Λ\rangle$ and show two main results. (i) Any spacetime symmetry of the ground state $|Ψ\rangle$ is also mapped by $V$ into a spacetime symmetry of the cMERA $|Ψ^Λ\rangle$. However, while in the CFT the stress-energy tensor $T_{μν}(x)$ (in terms of which all the spacetime symmetry generators are expressed) is local, the corresponding cMERA stress-energy tensor $T_{μν}^Λ(x) = V T_{μν}(x) V^{\dagger}$ is quasi-local. (ii) From the cMERA, we can extract quasi-local scaling operators $O^Λ_α(x)$ characterized by the exact same scaling dimensions $Δ_α$, conformal spins $s_α$, operator product expansion coefficients $C_{αβγ}$, and central charge $c$ as the original CFT. Finally, we argue that these results should also apply to interacting theories.

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