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Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of the 3D Ising Transition on the Fuzzy Sphere
by Johannes S. Hofmann, Florian Goth, Wei Zhu, Yin-Chen He, Emilie Huffman
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Johannes Stephan Hofmann · Emilie Huffman |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202401_00004v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2024-04-25 |
| Date submitted: | 2024-04-09 02:00 |
| Submitted by: | Huffman, Emilie |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Core |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
We present a numerical quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for simulating the 3D phase transition on the recently proposed fuzzy sphere [Phys. Rev. X 13, 021009 (2023)]. By introducing an additional $SU(2)$ layer degree of freedom, we reformulate the model into a form suitable for sign-problem-free QMC simulation. From the finite-size-scaling, we show that this QMC-friendly model undergoes a quantum phase transition belonging to the 3D Ising universality class, and at the critical point we compute the scaling dimensions from the state-operator correspondence, which largely agrees with the prediction from the conformal field theory. These results pave the way to construct sign-problem-free models for QMC simulations on the fuzzy sphere, which could advance the future study on more sophisticated criticalities.
Author comments upon resubmission
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Authors
List of changes
- added a discussion of the N^4 scaling under equation 16 in the QMC simulations section of Results
- added a couple of sentences above equation (3) to clarify the Landau projection
- added the definition of the chi^2 to the paper, see new Eq. (20)
- added a more detailed discussion of the guiding design principle for the additional flavor in the last paragraph of Sec. 2.3
- added more discussion of future directions in the conclusion
- added an "int" subscript to equations (8) and (13)
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