Wednesday, November 14, 2012

1211.2932 (Michael Bögli et al.)

Study of theta-Vacua in the 2-d O(3) Model    [PDF]

Michael Bögli, Ferenc Niedermayer, Michele Pepe, Uwe-Jens Wiese
We investigate the continuum limit of the step scaling function in the 2-d O(3) model with different theta-vacua. Since we find a different continuum value of the step scaling function for each value of theta, we can conclude that theta indeed is a relevant parameter of the theory and does not get renormalized non-perturbatively. Furthermore, we confirm the result of the conjectured exact S-matrix theory, which predicts the continuum value at theta = pi. To obtain high precision data, we use a modified Hasenbusch improved estimator and an action with an optimized constraint, which has very small cut-off effects. The optimized constraint action combines the standard action of the 2-d O(3) model with a topological action. The topological action constrains the angle between neighboring spins and is therefore invariant against small deformations of the field.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2932

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