1207.4905 (Vicente Azcoiti et al.)

Critical behaviour of the O(3) nonlinear sigma model with topological
term at theta=pi from numerical simulations    [PDF]

Vicente Azcoiti, Giuseppe Di Carlo, Eduardo Follana, Matteo Giordano

We investigate the critical behaviour at theta=pi of the two-dimensional O(3) nonlinear sigma model with topological term on the lattice. Our method is based on numerical simulations at imaginary values of theta, and on scaling transformations that allow a controlled analytic continuation to real values of theta. Our results are compatible with a second order phase transition, with the critical exponent of the SU(2)_1 Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model, for sufficiently small values of the coupling.

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