Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in the six-state clock model
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581 (Japan)
Description
A classical 2D clock model is known to have a critical phase with Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transitions. These transitions have logarithmic corrections which make numerical analysis difficult. In order to resolve this difficulty, one of the authors has proposed a method called 'level spectroscopy', which is based on the conformal field theory. We extend this method to the multi-degenerated case. As an example, we study the classical 2D six-clock model which can be mapped to the quantum self-dual 1D six-clock model. Additionally, we confirm that the self-dual point has a precise numerical agreement with the analytical result, and we argue the degeneracy of the excitation states at the self-dual point from the effective field theoretical point of view
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/39/2953/a6_12_006.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General (ISSN 1361-6447) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/39/2953/a6_12_006.pdf;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0305-4470/39/12/006;
- PII
- S0305-4470(06)12711-0;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General
- Journal Volume
- 39
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. 2953-2964
- ISSN
- 0305-4470
- CODEN
- JPHAC5
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37051308
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; CORRECTIONS; EXCITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICS