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A. Zamolodchikov

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arXiv2011

Inelastic scattering and elastic amplitude in Ising field theory in a weak magnetic field at T>T_c. Perturbative analysis

Two-particle scattering in Ising field theory in a weak magnetic field h is studied in the regime T>T_c, using perturbation theory in h^2. We calculate explicitly the cross-section of the process 2->3 to the order h^2. To this order, the corresponding cross-section dominates the total cross-section (the probability of all inelastic processes) at all energies E. We show that at high energies the h^2 term in the total cross-section grows as 16 G_3 h^2 log(E) where G_3 is exactly the third moment of the Euclidean spin-spin correlation function. Going beyond the leading order, we argue that at small h^2 the probability of the 2->2 process decays as E^(-16G_3 h^2) as E->infinity.

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arXiv2006

Decay of Metastable Vacuum in Liouville Gravity

A decay of weakly metastable phase coupled to two-dimensional Liouville gravity is considered in the semiclassical approximation. The process is governed by the ``critical swelling'', where the droplet fluctuation favors a gravitational inflation inside the region of lower energy phase. This geometrical effect modifies the standard exponential suppression of the decay rate, substituting it with a power one, with the exponent becoming very large in the semiclassical regime. This result is compared with the power-like behavior of the discontinuity in the specific energy of the dynamical lattice Ising model. The last problem is far from being semiclassical, and the corresponding exponent was found to be 3/2. This exponent is expected to govern any gravitational decay into a vacuum without massless excitations. We conjecture also an exact relation between the exponent in this power-law suppression and the central charge of the stable phase.

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arXiv2003

Ward Identities and Integrable Differential Equations in the Ising Field Theory

We show that the celebrated Painleve equations for the Ising correlation functions follow in a simple way from the Ward Identities associated with local Integrals of Motion of the doubled Ising field theory. We use these Ward Identities to derive the equations determining the matrix elements of the product $σ(x)σ(x')$ between any particle states. The result is then applied in evaluating the leading mass corrections in the Ising field theory perturbed by an external magnetic field.

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arXiv2001

Ising field theory in a magnetic field: analytic properties of the free energy

We study the analytic properties of the scaling function associated with the 2D Ising model free energy in the critical domain $T \to T_c$, $H \to 0$. The analysis is based on numerical data obtained through the Truncated Free Fermion Space Approach. We determine the discontinuities across the Yang-Lee and Langer branch cuts. We confirm the standard analyticity assumptions and propose "extended analyticity"; roughly speaking, the latter states that the Yang-Lee branching point is the nearest singularity under Langer's branch cut. We support the extended analyticity by evaluating numerically the associated "extended dispersion relation".

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arXiv2001

Form factors of soliton-creating operators in the sine-Gordon model

We propose explicit expressions for the form factors, including their normalization constants, of topologically charged (or soliton-creating) operators in the sine-Gordon model. The normalization constants, which constitute the main content of our proposal, allow one to find exact relations between the short- and long-distance asymptotics of the correlation functions. We make predictions concerning asymptotics of fermion correlation functions in the massive Thirring model, SU(2)-Thirring model with anisotropy, and in the half-filled Hubbard chain.

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arXiv2001

Liouville field theory on a pseudosphere

Liouville field theory is considered with boundary conditions corresponding to a quantization of the classical Lobachevskiy plane (i.e. euclidean version of $AdS_2$). We solve the bootstrap equations for the out-vacuum wave function and find an infinite set of solutions. This solutions are in one to one correspondence with the degenerate representations of the Virasoro algebra. Consistency of these solutions is verified by both boundary and modular bootstrap techniques. Perturbative calculations lead to the conclusion that only the ``basic'' solution corresponding to the identity operator provides a ``natural'' quantization of the Lobachevskiy plane.

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arXiv2000

Boundary Liouville Field Theory I. Boundary State and Boundary Two-point Function

Liouville conformal field theory is considered with conformal boundary. There is a family of conformal boundary conditions parameterized by the boundary cosmological constant, so that observables depend on the dimensional ratios of boundary and bulk cosmological constants. The disk geometry is considered. We present an explicit expression for the expectation value of a bulk operator inside the disk and for the two-point function of boundary operators. We comment also on the properties of the degenrate boundary operators. Possible applications and further developments are discussed. In particular, we present exact expectation values of the boundary operators in the boundary sin-Gordon model.

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arXiv1998

On nonequilibrium states in QFT model with boundary interaction

We prove that certain nonequilibrium expectation values in the boundary sine-Gordon model coincide with associated equilibrium-state expectation values in the systems which differ from the boundary sine-Gordon in that certain extra boundary degrees of freedom (q-oscillators) are added. Applications of this result to actual calculation of nonequilibrium characteristics of the boundary sine-Gordon model are also discussed.

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arXiv1998

Expectation values of descendent fields in the sine-Gordon model

We obtain exactly the vacuum expectation values $<(\partialϕ)^2 ({\bar\partial}ϕ) e^{iαϕ}>$ in the sine-Gordon model and $ $ in $Φ_{1,3}$ perturbed minimal CFT. We discuss applications of these results to short-distance expansions of two-point correlation functions.

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arXiv1997

Expectation values of local fields in Bullough-Dodd model and integrable perturbed conformal field theories

Exact expectation values of the fields e^{aϕ} in the Bullough-Dodd model are derived by adopting the ``reflection relations'' which involve the reflection S-matrix of the Liouville theory, as well as special analyticity assumption. Using this result we propose explicit expressions for expectation values of all primary operators in the c<1 minimal CFT perturbed by the operator Φ_{1,2} or Phi_{2,1}. Some results concerning the $Φ_{1,5}$ perturbed minimal models are also presented.

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arXiv1996

Exact expectation values of local fields in quantum sine-Gordon model

We propose an explicit expression for vacuum expectation values of the exponential fields in the sine-Gordon model. Our expression agrees both with semi-classical results in the sine-Gordon theory and with perturbative calculations in the Massive Thirring model. We use this expression to make new predictions about the large-distance asymptotic form of the two-point correlation function in the XXZ spin chain.

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arXiv1996

Integrable Structure of Conformal Field Theory II. Q-operator and DDV equation

This paper is a direct continuation of\ \BLZ\ where we begun the study of the integrable structures in Conformal Field Theory. We show here how to construct the operators ${\bf Q}_{\pm}(λ)$ which act in highest weight Virasoro module and commute for different values of the parameter $λ$. These operators appear to be the CFT analogs of the $Q$ - matrix of Baxter\ \Baxn, in particular they satisfy famous Baxter's ${\bf T}-{\bf Q}$ equation. We also show that under natural assumptions about analytic properties of the operators ${\bf Q}(λ)$ as the functions of $λ$ the Baxter's relation allows one to derive the nonlinear integral equations of Destri-de Vega (DDV)\ \dVega\ for the eigenvalues of the ${\bf Q}$-operators. We then use the DDV equation to obtain the asymptotic expansions of the ${\bf Q}$ - operators at large $λ$; it is remarkable that unlike the expansions of the ${\bf T}$ operators of \ \BLZ, the asymptotic series for ${\bf Q}(λ)$ contains the ``dual'' nonlocal Integrals of Motion along with the local ones. We also discuss an intriguing relation between the vacuum eigenvalues of the ${\bf Q}$ - operators and the stationary transport properties in boundary sine-Gordon model. On this basis we propose a number of new exact results about finite voltage charge transport through the point contact in quantum Hall system.

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arXiv1994

Integrable Structure of Conformal Field Theory, Quantum KdV Theory and Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz

We construct the quantum versions of the monodromy matrices of KdV theory. The traces of these quantum monodromy matrices, which will be called as ``${\bf T}$-operators'', act in highest weight Virasoro modules. The ${\bf T}$-operators depend on the spectral parameter $λ$ and their expansion around $λ= \infty$ generates an infinite set of commuting Hamiltonians of the quantum KdV system. The ${\bf T}$-operators can be viewed as the continuous field theory versions of the commuting transfer-matrices of integrable lattice theory. In particular, we show that for the values $c=1-3{{(2n+1)^2}\over {2n+3}} , n=1,2,3,... $of the Virasoro central charge the eigenvalues of the ${\bf T}$-operators satisfy a closed system of functional equations sufficient for determining the spectrum. For the ground-state eigenvalue these functional equations are equivalent to those of massless Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz for the minimal conformal field theory ${\cal M}_{2,2n+3}$; in general they provide a way to generalize the technique of Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz to the excited states. We discuss a generalization of our approach to the cases of massive field theories obtained by perturbing these Conformal Field Theories with the operator $Φ_{1,3}$. The relation of these ${\bf T}$-operators to the boundary states is also briefly described.

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