Nonperiodic ising quantum chains and conformal invariance |
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Authors: | Uwe Grimm Michael Baake |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne, 3052 Parkville, Victoria, Australia;(2) Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany;(3) Present address: Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | In a recent paper, Luck investigated the critical behavior of one-dimensional Ising quantum chains with coupling constants modulated according to general nonperiodic sequences. In this note, we take a closer look at the case where the sequences are obtained from (two-letter) substituion rules and at the consequences of Luck's results at criticality. They imply that only for a certain class of substitution rules is the long-distance behavior still described by thec=1/2 conformal field theory of a free Majorana fermion as for the periodic Ising quantum chain, whereas the general case does not lead to a conformally invariant scaling limit. |
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Keywords: | Quantum spin chains nonperiodic systems substitution rules conformal invariance Pisot-Vijayaraghavan numbers |
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