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Maria Polackova

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arXiv2026

New Tools in the Landau Bootstrap

We describe recent advances in our understanding of the analytic structure of Feynman integrals. In particular, we describe two new classes of constraints on such integrals, that identify discontinuities that either cannot be repeated, or that always give rise to the same result (no matter which other discontinuities are computed first). These new constraints hold at all orders in dimensional regularization, and provide us with new input for the Landau bootstrap, where information about the singularities and discontinuities of individual Feynman integrals is used to construct their functional form.

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arXiv2025

Steinmann Violation and Minimal Cuts

The Steinmann relations are known to be violated with respect to some -- but not all -- two-particle momentum channels in massless Feynman integrals. We trace the source of this Steinmann violation to a special class of singularities, which arise from partially-overlapping minimal cuts. This allows us to propose an efficient graphical test for predicting which Steinmann relations will be violated by massless Feynman integrals of a given topology, which can be applied at any loop order. We provide evidence for this test by correctly predicting all instances of Steinmann violation in the complete set of known two-loop integrals that contribute to five-particle scattering with one or two external masses.

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arXiv2024

Minimal Cuts and Genealogical Constraints on Feynman Integrals

We introduce an efficient method for deriving hierarchical constraints on the discontinuities of individual Feynman integrals. This method can be applied at any loop order and particle multiplicity, and to any configuration of massive or massless virtual particles. The resulting constraints hold to all orders in dimensional regularization, and complement the extended Steinmann relations -- which restrict adjacent sequential discontinuities -- by disallowing ordered pairs of discontinuities from appearing even when separated by (any number of) other discontinuities. We focus on a preferred class of hierarchical constraints, which we refer to as \emph{genealogical constraints}, that govern what singularities can follow from certain \emph{minimal cuts} that act as the primogenitors of the discontinuities that appear in Feynman integrals. While deriving the full set of hierarchical constraints on a given Feynman integral generally requires identifying all solutions to the (blown up) Landau equations, these genealogical constraints can be worked out with only minimal information about what singularities may appear. We illustrate the power of this new method in examples at one, two, and three loops, and provide evidence that genealogical constraints restrict the analytic structure of Feynman integrals significantly more than the extended Steinmann relations.

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arXiv2024

Vertex Representation of Hyperbolic Tensor Networks

We propose a vertex representation of the tensor network (TN) for classical spin systems on hyperbolic lattices. The tensors form a network of regular $p$-sided polygons ($p>4$) with the coordination number four. The response to multi-state spin systems on the hyperbolic TN is analyzed for their entire parameter space. We show that entanglement entropy is sensitive to distinguish various hyperbolic geometries whereas other thermodynamic quantities are not. We test the numerical accuracy of vertex TNs in the phase transitions of the first, second, and infinite order at the point of maximal entanglement entropy. The hyperbolic structure of TNs induces non-critical properties in the bulk although boundary conditions significantly affect the total free energy in the thermodynamic limit. Thus developed vertex-type TN can be used for the lowest-energy quantum states on the hyperbolic lattices.

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arXiv2022

Field Theory of Active Brownian Particles in Potentials

The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model exemplifies a wide class of active matter particles. In this work, we demonstrate how this model can be cast into a field theory in both two and three dimensions. Our aim is manifold: we wish both to extract useful features of the system, as well as to build a framework which can be used to study more complex systems involving ABPs, such as those involving interaction. Using the two-dimensional model as a template, we calculate the mean squared displacement exactly, and the one-point density in an external potential perturbatively. We show how the effective diffusion constant appears in the barometric density formula to leading order, and determine the corrections to it. We repeat the calculation in three dimensions, clearly a more challenging setup. Comparing different ways to capture the self-propulsion, we find that its perturbative treatment results in more tractable derivations without loss of exactness, where this is accessible.

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arXiv2022

Anisotropic deformation of the 6-state clock model: Tricritical-point classification

The two-dimensional $q$-state clock models exhibit the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition for $q\geq5$ since they are a subset of the isotropic XY model. We examine the $6$-state clock model with an anisotropic deformation. Selecting the $6$-state Potts model as a source of the deformation, the model naturally violates the discrete rotational symmetry of the clock model. We introduce the anisotropic deformation parameter $\alpha$ in the clock model interpolating the clock ($\alpha = 1$) and the Potts ($\alpha = 0$) models. We employ the corner transfer matrix renormalization group method to analyze the phase transitions on the square lattice in the thermodynamic limit. Three different phases and phase transitions are identified. The phase diagram is constructed, and we determine a tricritical point at $\alpha_{\rm c} = 0.21405(4)$ and $T_{\rm c} = 0.834017(5)$. Analyzing the latent heat and the entanglement entropy in the vicinity of the $T_{\rm c}(\alpha_{\rm c})$, we observe a single discontinuous phase transition and two BKT phase transitions meeting in the tricritical point. The tricritical point exhibits a phase transition of the second order with the critical exponents $\beta \approx 1/10$ and $\delta \approx 14$. We conjecture that an infinitesimal surrounding of the tricritical point consists of the three fundamental phase transitions, in which the first and the BKT orders gradually weaken into the second-order tricritical point.

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