Conformal fields and operator product expansion in critical quantum spin chains

Abstract

We propose a variational method for identifying lattice operators in a critical quantum spin chain with scaling operators in the underlying conformal field theory (CFT). In particular, this allows us to build a lattice version of the primary operators of the CFT, from which we can numerically estimate the operator product expansion coefficients $C_{\alpha \beta \gamma }^{\text{ CFT}}$. We demonstrate the approach with the critical Ising quantum spin chain.

arXiv comment4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, plus 13 pages appendix

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