Published September 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Conformal invariance and perturbations in the two-dimensional Ising model: Surface defects

  • 1. Universite de NANCY-I (France)

Description

The influence of homogeneous surface perturbations on the surface critical behavior of the two-dimensional Ising model is studied through finite-size scaling and conformal invariance. Quantum chains of up to 2,000 spins are studied in the fermionic version of the model. The results are deduced from the numerical solution of an eigenvalue equation for the excitation spectrum and show that conformal invariance still works for irrelevant surface perturbations

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Statistical Physics
Journal Volume
56
Journal Issue
5-6
Series
J. Stat. Phys.
Journal Page Range
589-607
ISSN
0022-4715
CODEN
JSTPB