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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Finite size effects in conformal field theories and non-local operators in one-dimensional quantum systems

Andrei Dmitrievich Mironov, Anton Vladimirovich Zabrodin

Published May 21, 1990• 4 citations
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Abstract

The authors generalise the well known connection between critical exponents and finite size effects in conformal field theories to non-local operators and find the long-wave asymptotics of vacuum expectation values of some non-local operators in one-dimensional quantum systems.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/23/10/004

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