A relationship between the two-point correlation function of the Ising model in the critical region and the $〈sin\sqrt{\ensuremath{\pi}}\ensuremath{\varphi}(0)sin\sqrt{\ensuremath{\pi}}\ensuremath{\varphi}(\ensuremath{\rho})〉$ Green's function of a sine-Gordon field is constructed. This relationship is tested by means of a mass perturbation expansion with an infrared cutoff and shown to agree, at the leading-logarithm approximation and up to the second order, with the exact result of the Ising model.
We study critical spin systems and field theories using matrix product states, and formulate a scaling hypothesis in terms of operators, eigenvalues of the transfer matrix, and lattice spacing in the case of field theories. The critical point, exponents, and central charge are determined by optimizing them to obtain a data collapse. We benchmark this method by studying critical Ising and Potts models, where we also obtain a scaling Ansatz for the correlation length and entanglement entropy. The formulation of those scaling functions turns out to be crucial for studying critical quantum field theories on the lattice. For the case of $\ensuremath{\lambda}{\ensuremath{\phi}}^{4}$ with mass parameter ${\ensuremath{\mu}}^{2}$ and lattice spacing
a, we demonstrate a double data collapse for the correlation length $\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\xi}(\ensuremath{\mu},\ensuremath{\lambda},D)=\stackrel{\texttildelow{}}{\ensuremath{\xi}}((\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{-}{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{c})(\ensuremath{\delta}/a{)}^{\ensuremath{-}1/\ensuremath{\nu}})$ with
D the bond dimension, $\ensuremath{\delta}$ the gap between eigenvalues of the transfer matrix, and ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{c}={\ensuremath{\mu}}_{R}^{2}/\ensuremath{\lambda}$ the parameter which fixes the critical quantum field theory.
A systematic method for the computation of finite-temperature (T) crossover functions near quantum-critical points close to, or above, their upper-critical dimension is devised. We describe the physics of the various regions in the T and critical tuning parameter (t) plane. The quantum-critical point is at T=0, t=0, and in many cases there is a line of finite-temperature transitions at T=
Tc(t), t0, with
Tc(0)=0. For the relativistic, n-component ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\varphi}}}^{4}$ continuum quantum field theory [which describes lattice quantum rotor (n\ensuremath{\geqslant}2) and transverse field Ising (n=1) models] the upper-critical dimension is d=3, and for d3, \ensuremath{\epsilon}=3-d is the control parameter over the entire phase diagram. In the region |T-
Tc(t)|\ensuremath{\ll}
Tc(t), we obtain an \ensuremath{\epsilon} expansion for coupling constants which then are input as arguments of known classical, tricritical, crossover functions. In the high-T region of the continuum theory, an expansion in integer powers of $\sqrt{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}$, modulo powers of ln \ensuremath{\epsilon}, holds for all thermodynamic observables, static correlators, and dynamic properties at all Matsubara frequencies; for the imaginary part of correlators at real frequencies (\ensuremath{\omega}), the perturbative $\sqrt{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}$ expansion describes quantum relaxation at \ensuremath{\hbar}\ensuremath{\omega}\ensuremath{\sim}
kBT or larger, but fails for \ensuremath{\hbar}\ensuremath{\omega}\ensuremath{\sim}$\sqrt{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}$
kBT or smaller. An important principle, underlying the whole calculation, is the analyticity of all observables as functions of t at t=0, for T>0; indeed, analytic continuation in t is used to obtain results in a portion of the phase diagram. Our method also applies to a large class of other quantum-critical points and their associated continuum quantum field theories.