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Hamiltonian truncation in Anti-de Sitter spacetime

Hogervorst, Matthijs  
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Meineri, Marco  
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Penedones, Joao  
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August 16, 2021
Journal of High Energy Physics

Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime are often strongly coupled when the radius of AdS is large, and few methods are available to study them. In this work, we develop a Hamiltonian truncation method to compute the energy spectrum of QFTs in two-dimensional AdS. The infinite volume of constant timeslices of AdS leads to divergences in the energy levels. We propose a simple prescription to obtain finite physical energies and test it with numerical diagonalization in several models: the free massive scalar field, phi(4) theory, Lee-Yang and Ising field theory. Along the way, we discuss spontaneous symmetry breaking in AdS and derive a compact formula for perturbation theory in quantum mechanics at arbitrary order. Our results suggest that all conformal boundary conditions for a given theory are connected via bulk renormalization group flows in AdS.

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DOI
10.1007/JHEP08(2021)063
Web of Science ID

WOS:000686712300003

Author(s)
Hogervorst, Matthijs  
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Meineri, Marco  
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Penedones, Joao  
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Vaziri, Kamran Salehi  
Date Issued

2021-08-16

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published in
Journal of High Energy Physics
Issue

8

Start page

63

Subjects

Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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conformal field theory

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field theories in lower dimensions

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nonperturbative effects

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ising field-theory

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boundary-conditions

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magnetic-field

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s-matrix

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scattering

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renormalization

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model

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flow

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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FSL  
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September 11, 2021
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