Critical spin chains and loop models with $PSU(n)$ symmetry
Starting with the Ising model, statistical models with global symmetries provide fruitful approaches to interesting physical systems, for example percolation or polymers. These include the $O(n)$ model (symmetry group $O(n)$) and the Potts model (symmetry group $S_Q$). Both models make sense for $n,...
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| author | Paul Roux, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Sylvain Ribault, Hubert Saleur |
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| description | Starting with the Ising model, statistical models with global symmetries provide fruitful approaches to interesting physical systems, for example percolation or polymers. These include the $O(n)$ model (symmetry group $O(n)$) and the Potts model (symmetry group $S_Q$). Both models make sense for $n,Q∈ \mathbb{C}$ and not just $n,Q∈ \mathbb{N}$, and both give rise to a conformal field theory in the critical limit. Here, we study similar models based on the group $PSU(n)$. We focus on the two-dimensional case, where the models can be described either as gases of non-intersecting orientable loops, or as alternating spin chains. This allows us to determine their spectra either by computing a twisted torus partition function, or by studying representations of the walled Brauer algebra. In the critical limit, our models give rise to a CFT that exists for any $n∈\mathbb{C}$ and has a global $PSU(n)$ symmetry. Its spectrum is similar to those of the $O(n)$ and Potts CFTs, but a bit simpler. We conjecture that the $O(n)$ CFT is a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold of the $PSU(n)$ CFT, where $\mathbb{Z}_2$ acts as complex conjugation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bbb48ea130054b62891415411b881f4f2025-01-27T11:47:54ZengSciPostSciPost Physics2542-46532025-01-0118103310.21468/SciPostPhys.18.1.033Critical spin chains and loop models with $PSU(n)$ symmetryPaul Roux, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Sylvain Ribault, Hubert SaleurStarting with the Ising model, statistical models with global symmetries provide fruitful approaches to interesting physical systems, for example percolation or polymers. These include the $O(n)$ model (symmetry group $O(n)$) and the Potts model (symmetry group $S_Q$). Both models make sense for $n,Q∈ \mathbb{C}$ and not just $n,Q∈ \mathbb{N}$, and both give rise to a conformal field theory in the critical limit. Here, we study similar models based on the group $PSU(n)$. We focus on the two-dimensional case, where the models can be described either as gases of non-intersecting orientable loops, or as alternating spin chains. This allows us to determine their spectra either by computing a twisted torus partition function, or by studying representations of the walled Brauer algebra. In the critical limit, our models give rise to a CFT that exists for any $n∈\mathbb{C}$ and has a global $PSU(n)$ symmetry. Its spectrum is similar to those of the $O(n)$ and Potts CFTs, but a bit simpler. We conjecture that the $O(n)$ CFT is a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold of the $PSU(n)$ CFT, where $\mathbb{Z}_2$ acts as complex conjugation.https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.1.033 |
| spellingShingle | Paul Roux, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Sylvain Ribault, Hubert Saleur Critical spin chains and loop models with $PSU(n)$ symmetry SciPost Physics |
| title | Critical spin chains and loop models with $PSU(n)$ symmetry |
| title_full | Critical spin chains and loop models with $PSU(n)$ symmetry |
| title_fullStr | Critical spin chains and loop models with $PSU(n)$ symmetry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critical spin chains and loop models with $PSU(n)$ symmetry |
| title_short | Critical spin chains and loop models with $PSU(n)$ symmetry |
| title_sort | critical spin chains and loop models with psu n symmetry |
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