Spectrum of conformal gauge theories on a torus

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关键词: COUPLING-CONSTANT LOGARITHMS;    GROUND-STATE;    SPIN-LIQUID;    QUANTUM;    NONINVARIANCE;    SUMMATION;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.95.205128

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

Many model quantum spin systems have been proposed to realize critical points or phases described by 2+1 dimensional conformal gauge theories. On a torus of size L and modular parameter tau, the energy levels of such gauge theories equal (1/L) times universal functions of t. We compute the universal spectrum of QED(3), a U(1) gauge theory with N-f two-component massless Dirac fermions, in the large-N-f limit. We also allow for a Chern-Simons term at level k, and show how the topological k-fold ground state degeneracy in the absence of fermions transforms into the universal spectrum in the presence of fermions; these computations are performed at fixed N-f/k in the large-N-f limit.

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