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arXiv:1603.09543 · Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Sine-square deformation and Möbius quantization of 2D conformal field theory

Kouichi Okunishi

Published Jun 1, 2016• 49 citations
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Abstract

Motivated by sine-square deformation (SSD) for quantum critical systems in 1+1 dimensions, we discuss a Möbius quantization approach to the 2D conformal field theory, which bridges the conventional radial quantization and the dipolar quantization recently proposed by Ishibashi and Tada [N. Ishibashi and T. Tada, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48, 315402 (2015)], [N. Ishibashi and T. Tada, arXiv:1602.01190 [hep-th] [Search INSPIRE]. We then find that the continuous Virasoro algebra of the dipolar quantization can be interpreted as a continuum limit of the Virasoro algebra for scaled generators in the SSD limit of the Möbius quantization approach.

DOI
10.1093/ptep/ptw060

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