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arXiv:1706.09929 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

NLO renormalization in the Hamiltonian truncation

Joan Elias Miró, Slava Rychkov, Lorenzo G. Vitale

Published Sep 27, 2017• 56 citations
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Abstract

Hamiltonian truncation (also known as ``truncated spectrum approach'') is a numerical technique for solving strongly coupled quantum field theories, in which the full Hilbert space is truncated to a finite-dimensional low-energy subspace. The accuracy of the method is limited only by the available computational resources. The renormalization program improves the accuracy by carefully integrating out the high-energy states, instead of truncating them away. In this paper, we develop the most accurate ever variant of Hamiltonian Truncation, which implements renormalization at the cubic order in the interaction strength. The novel idea is to interpret the renormalization procedure as a result of integrating out exactly a certain class of high-energy ``tail states.'' We demonstrate the power of the method with high-accuracy computations in the strongly coupled two-dimensional quartic scalar theory and benchmark it against other existing approaches. Our work will also be useful for the future goal of extending Hamiltonian truncation to higher spacetime dimensions.

DOI
10.1103/physrevd.96.065024

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Hamiltonian Truncation (a.k.a. Truncated Spectrum Approach) is an efficient numerical technique to solve strongly coupled QFTs in d = 2 spacetime dimensions. Further theoretical developments are needed to increase its accuracy and the range of applicability. With this goal in mind, here we present a new variant of Hamiltonian Truncation which exhibits smaller dependence on the UV cutoff than other existing implementations, and yields more accurate spectra. The key idea for achieving this consists in integrating out exactly a certain class of high energy states, which corresponds to performing renormalization at the cubic order in the interaction strength. We test the new method on the strongly coupled two-dimensional quartic scalar theory. Our work will also be useful for the future goal of extending Hamiltonian Truncation to higher dimensions d ≥ 3.
Hamiltonian Truncation Methods are a useful numerical tool to study strongly coupled QFTs. In this work we present a new method to compute the exact corrections, at any order, in the Hamiltonian Truncation approach presented by Rychkov et al. in refs. [1-3]. The method is general but as an example we calculate the exact g 2 and some of the g 3 contributions for the ϕ 4 theory in two dimensions. The coefficients of the local expansion calculated in ref. [1] are shown to be given by phase space integrals. In addition we find new approximations to speed up the numerical calculations and implement them to compute the lowest energy levels at strong coupling. A simple diagrammatic representation of the corrections and various tests are also introduced.
Strongly-coupled Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) are ubiquitous in high energy physics and many-body physics, yet our ability to do precise computations in such systems remains limited. Hamiltonian Truncation is a method for doing nonperturbative computations of real-time evolution in strongly coupled QFT in the continuum limit, and works by numerically solving the Schrodinger equation in a truncated subspace of the full Hilbert space. Recent advances in understanding this method have opened the door to progress in a range of applications, from gauge theories in d≥2d\ge 2d≥2 dimensions to relativistic nonequilibrium physics.
Hamiltonian truncation offers a nonperturbative route to quantum field theory, yet its accuracy is limited by the rapid expansion of the truncated Hilbert space, which drives up computational cost. We tackle this bottleneck with a hybrid strategy that pairs classical and quantum algorithms: 1) we develop an efficient basis-generation scheme built on integer partitions; 2) we speed up the construction of the sparse Hamiltonian matrix using symmetry-aware algorithms; and 3) we explore quantum Krylov diagonalization as a route to the low-lying spectrum. Benchmarking against the free massive scalar and φ4φ^4φ4 theories in two spacetime dimensions, we achieve substantial gains in the computational efficiency of Hamiltonian truncation and chart a path toward future quantum implementations.
We defend the Fock-space Hamiltonian truncation method, which allows us to calculate numerically the spectrum of strongly coupled quantum field theories, by putting them in a finite volume and imposing a UV cutoff. The accuracy of the method is improved via an analytic renormalization procedure inspired by the usual effective field theory. As an application, we study the two-dimensional ${\ensuremath{\phi}}^{4}$ theory for a wide range of couplings. The theory exhibits a quantum phase transition between the symmetry-preserving and symmetry-breaking phases. We extract quantitative predictions for the spectrum and the critical coupling and make contact with previous results from the literature. Future directions to further improve the accuracy of the method and enlarge its scope of applications are outlined.
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