1. Spectral properties of the critical (1+1)-dimensional Abelian-Higgs model
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Polish Grid Infrastructure, European Commission, Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital (España), Fundació Privada Cellex, Fundación Privada Mir-Puig, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Fundación la Caixa, National Science Centre (Poland), Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), https://ror.org/02gfc7t72, Chanda, T., Dalmonte, M., Lewenstein, M., Zakrzewski, J., Tagliacozzo, Luca, Polish Grid Infrastructure, European Commission, Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital (España), Fundació Privada Cellex, Fundación Privada Mir-Puig, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Fundación la Caixa, National Science Centre (Poland), Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), https://ror.org/02gfc7t72, Chanda, T., Dalmonte, M., Lewenstein, M., Zakrzewski, J., and Tagliacozzo, Luca
- Abstract
The presence of gauge symmetry in 1+1 dimensions is known to be redundant, since it does not imply the existence of dynamical gauge bosons. As a consequence, in the continuum, the Abelian-Higgs model (i.e., the theory of bosonic matter interacting with photons) just possesses a single phase, as the higher-dimensional Higgs and Coulomb phases are connected via nonperturbative effects. However, recent research published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090601 (2022)0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.128.090601 has revealed an unexpected phase transition when the system is discretized on the lattice. This transition is described by a conformal field theory with a central charge of c=3/2. In this paper, we aim to characterize the two components of this c=3/2 theory - namely the free Majorana fermionic and bosonic parts - through equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium spectral analyses.
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- 2024