DMRG study of the higher-charge Schwinger model and its ’t Hooft anomaly. (English) Zbl 1536.81203
Summary: The charge-\(q\) Schwinger model is the \((1 + 1)\)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED) with a charge-\(q\) Dirac fermion. It has the \(\mathbb{Z}_q\) 1-form symmetry and also enjoys the \(\mathbb{Z}_q\) chiral symmetry in the chiral limit, and there is a mixed ’t Hooft anomaly between those symmetries. We numerically study the charge-\(q\) Schwinger model in the lattice Hamiltonian formulation using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG). When applying DMRG, we map the Schwinger model to a spin chain with nonlocal interaction via Jordan-Wigner transformation, and we take the open boundary condition instead of the periodic one to make the Hilbert space finite-dimensional. When computing the energy density or chiral condensate, we find that using local operators significantly reduces the boundary effect compared with the computation of corresponding extensive quantities divided by the volume. To discuss the consequence of the ’t Hooft anomaly, we carefully treat the renormalization of the chiral condensates, and then we confirm that Wilson loops generate the discrete chiral transformations in the continuum limit.
MSC:
| 81T50 | Anomalies in quantum field theory |
| 81V10 | Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics |
| 81T13 | Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory |
| 81R40 | Symmetry breaking in quantum theory |
Keywords:
anomalies in field and string theories; chiral symmetry; discrete symmetries; algorithms and theoretical developmentsSoftware:
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