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Physical Review Letters

Conformal Anomaly and Scaling Dimensions of the O(n) Model from an Exact Solution on the Honeycomb Lattice

Murray T. Batchelor, Henk W. J. Blöte

Published Jul 11, 1988• 61 citations
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Abstract

The critical $\mathrm{O}(n)$ model on a finite honeycomb lattice is solved by the Bethe-Ansatz method. Amplitudes of the dominant finite-size corrections to part of the eigenspectrum are obtained analytically. A comparison with Cardy's predictions from the theory of conformal invariance leads to the exact results for the conformal anomaly and scaling dimensions.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.61.138

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