Random Fractal Ansatz for the configurations of Two-Dimensional Critical Systems

Abstract

Critical systems have always intrigued physicists and precipitated the development of new techniques. Recently, there has been renewed interest in the information contained in their classical configurations, whose computation do not require full knowledge of the wavefunction. Inspired by holographic duality, we investigated the entanglement properties of the classical configurations (snapshots) of the Potts model by introducing an ansatz ensemble of random fractal images. By virtue of the central limit theorem, our ansatz accurately reproduces the entanglement spectra of actual Potts snapshots without any fine-tuning of parameters or artificial restrictions on ensemble choice. It provides a microscopic interpretation of the results of previous studies, which established a relation between the scaling behavior of snapshot entropy and the critical exponent. More importantly, it elucidates the role of ensemble disorder in restoring conformal invariance, an aspect previously ignored. Away from criticality, the breakdown of scale invariance leads to a renormalization of the parameter $\Sigma$ in the random fractal ansatz, whose variation can be used as an alternative determination of the critical exponent. We conclude by providing a recipe for the explicit construction of fractal unit cells consistent with a given scaling exponent.

13 pages, 8 figures

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