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arXiv:0710.2906

The gl(1|1) super-current algebra: the role of twist and logarithmic fields

André LeClair

Published Oct 16, 2007• 7 citations
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Abstract

A free field representation of the gl(1|1)_k current algebra at arbitrary level k is given in terms of two scalar fields and a symplectic fermion. The primary fields for all representations are explicitly constructed using the twist and logarithmic fields in the symplectic fermion sector. A closed operator algebra is described at integer level k. Using a new super spin charge separation involving gl(1|1)_N and su(N)_0, we describe how the gl(1|1)_N current algebra can describe a non-trivial critical point of disordered Dirac fermions. Local gl(1|1) invariant lagrangians are defined which generalize the Liouville and sine-Gordon theories. We apply these new tools to the spin quantum Hall transition and show that it can be described as a logarithmic perturbation of the osp(2|2)_k current algebra at k=-2.

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10.48550/arxiv.0710.2906

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The Osp(2|2) current algebra at level k=-2 is known to describe the IR fixed point of 2D Dirac fermions, subject to a random SU(2) gauge potential. We show that this theory has a simple free-field representation in terms of a compact, and a non-compact free scalar field, as well as a free fermionic ghost, at c=-2. The fermionic twist fields are crucial for the construction. The logarithmic current-algebra primary field with vanishing scaling dimension, transforming in an indecomposable representation, appears as a consequence of familiar logarithmic operators at c=-2.
We propose a resolution of the renormalization group flow for the disordered Dirac fermion theories describing the quantum Hall transition (QHT) and spin Quantum Hall transition (SQHT), which previously revealed no perturbative fixed points at 1-loop and higher. The approach involves carrying out the flow in 2 stages, the first stage utilizing a new form of super spin-charge separation to flow to gl(1|1)_N and osp(2|2)_{-2N} supercurrent algebra theories, where N is the number of copies. This leads to the unconventional feature that at the critical point the exponents depend on the original number of copies N. In the second stage, additional forms of disorder are incorporated as dimension zero logarithmic operators, and the resulting actions have explicit forms in terms of two scalar fields and a symplectic fermion. Under some assumptions, the multi-fractal exponents are computed with the result q(1-q)/4 and q(1-q)/8 for the QHT and SQHT respectively, and are within a few percent of numerical estimates.
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We derive non-linear differential equations for correlation functions of U (1) twist fields in the two-dimensional massive Dirac theory. Primary U (1) twist fields correspond to exponential fields in the sine-Gordon model at the free-fermion point, and it is well-known that their vacuum two-point functions are determined by integrable differential equations. We extend part of this result to more general quantum states (pure or mixed) and to certain descendents, showing that some two-point functions are determined by the sinh-Gordon differential equations whenever there is translation and parity invariance, and the density matrix is the exponential of a bilinear expression in fermions. We use methods involving Ward identities associated to the copy-rotation symmetry in a model with two independent, anti-commuting copies. Such methods were used in the context of the thermally perturbed Ising quantum field theory model. We show that they are applicable to the Dirac theory as well, and we suggest that they are likely to have a much wider applicability to free fermion models in general. Finally, we note that our form-factor study of descendents twist fields combined with a CFT analysis provides a new way of evaluating vacuum expectation values of primary U (1) twist fields: by deriving and solving a recursion relation.