Interface roughening in the 3-D Ising model with tensor networks
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| author | Ueda, Atsushi Burgelman, Lander Tagliacozzo, Luca Vanderstraeten, Laurens |
| author_facet | Ueda, Atsushi Burgelman, Lander Tagliacozzo, Luca Vanderstraeten, Laurens |
| contents | Interfaces in three-dimensional many-body systems can exhibit rich phenomena beyond the corresponding bulk properties. In particular, they can fluctuate and give rise to massless low energy degrees of freedom even in the presence of a gapped bulk. In this work, we present the first tensor-network study of the paradigmatic interface roughening transition of the 3-D Ising model using highly asymmetric lattices that are infinite in the $(xy)$ direction and finite in $z$. By reducing the problem to an effective 2-D tensor network, we study how truncating the $z$ direction reshapes the physics of the interface. For a truncation based on open boundary conditions, we demonstrate that varying the interface width gives rise to either a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry breaking transition (for odd $L_z$) or a smooth crossover(for even $L_z$). For antiperiodic boundary conditions, we obtain an effective $\mathbb{Z}_q$ clock model description with $q=2L_z$ that exhibits an intermediate Luttinger liquid phase with an emergent $\U(1)$ symmetry. |
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| spellingShingle | Interface roughening in the 3-D Ising model with tensor networks Ueda, Atsushi Burgelman, Lander Tagliacozzo, Luca Vanderstraeten, Laurens Strongly Correlated Electrons Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory Interfaces in three-dimensional many-body systems can exhibit rich phenomena beyond the corresponding bulk properties. In particular, they can fluctuate and give rise to massless low energy degrees of freedom even in the presence of a gapped bulk. In this work, we present the first tensor-network study of the paradigmatic interface roughening transition of the 3-D Ising model using highly asymmetric lattices that are infinite in the $(xy)$ direction and finite in $z$. By reducing the problem to an effective 2-D tensor network, we study how truncating the $z$ direction reshapes the physics of the interface. For a truncation based on open boundary conditions, we demonstrate that varying the interface width gives rise to either a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry breaking transition (for odd $L_z$) or a smooth crossover(for even $L_z$). For antiperiodic boundary conditions, we obtain an effective $\mathbb{Z}_q$ clock model description with $q=2L_z$ that exhibits an intermediate Luttinger liquid phase with an emergent $\U(1)$ symmetry. |
| title | Interface roughening in the 3-D Ising model with tensor networks |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07829 |