In this paper, we present a method to compute the minimal form factors (MFFs) of diagonal integrable field theories perturbed by generalized <math altimg='si9.svg'><mrow><mi>T</mi><mover accent='true'><mi>T</mi><mo>&#175;</mo></mover></mrow></math> perturbations. Building on existing results by the same authors, these MFFs are constructed in such a way as not to allow for any free parameters, an issue that plagued previous solutions. The MFFs are derived from a generalization of the standard integral representation which has been used for UV-complete theories since the birth of the form factor bootstrap program. By UV-complete we mean theories whose short-distance/high-energy limit is a local conformal field theory. Their asymptotics is characterized by exponential decay at large rapidities. By computing higher particle form factors, we find that any natural higher-particle solutions involve the cancellation of parts of the newly found MFF. We conclude that the assumption that the form factor equations, particularly the kinematic residue equation, remain unchanged in the presence of <math altimg='si9.svg'><mrow><mi>T</mi><mover accent='true'><mi>T</mi><mo>&#175;</mo></mover></mrow></math> perturbations, is too strong. There is a trade-off between having MFFs satisfying desirable analyticity and asymptotic properties and finding analytic solutions to the form factor equations, which is likely solved by nontrivial changes to the form factor equations, especially those where locality or semilocality of fields are essential assumptions.

United Kingdom

Fabio Sailis

Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo

Stefano Negro

Complete minimal form factors for irrelevant deformations of integrable quantum field theory

<p>In this Letter we continue the investigation of RG flows between Virasoro minimal models of two-dimensional conformal field theories that are protected by noninvertible symmetries. RG flows leaving unbroken a subcategory of noninvertible symmetries are associated with anomaly matching conditions that we employ systematically to map the space of flows between minimal models beyond the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><msub><mrow><mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></math>-symmetric proposed recently in the literature. We introduce a family of nonlinear integral equations that appear to encode the exact finite-size, ground-state energies of these flows, including nonintegrable cases, such as the recently proposed <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">M</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>k</mi><mi>q</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>I</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>q</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi mathvariant="script">M</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>k</mi><mi>q</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>I</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>q</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></math>. Our family of NLIEs encompasses and generalizes the integrable flows known in the literature: <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>ϕ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>3</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></msub></math>, <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>ϕ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>5</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></msub></math>, <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>ϕ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>2</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></msub></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>ϕ</mi><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></msub></math>. This work uncovers a new interplay between exact solvability and noninvertible symmetries. Furthermore, our nonperturbative description provides a nontrivial test for all the flows conjectured by anomaly matching conditions, but so far not observed by other means.</p>

Germany

Federico Ambrosino

Minimal Model Renormalization Group Flows: Noninvertible Symmetries and Nonperturbative Description

Our understanding of irrelevant perturbations of integrable quantum field theories has greatly expanded over the last decade. In particular, we know that, from a scattering theory viewpoint at least, their effect is realised as a modification the two-body scattering amplitudes by a CDD factor. While this sounds like a relatively small change, this CDD factor incorporates a non-trivial dependence on the perturbation parameter(s) and alters substantially the high-energy physics of the model. This occurs through the introduction of a natural length scale and is associated with phenomena such as the Hagedorn transition. In this paper we discuss how all these features extend to boundary integrable quantum field theories and propose a construction for the building blocks of matrix elements of local fields. We show that the same type of building blocks are also found in the sinh-Gordon model with Dirichlet boundary conditions.

Boundary quantum field theories perturbed by <math altimg='si1.svg'><mi mathvariant='normal'>T</mi><mover accent='true'><mrow><mi mathvariant='normal'>T</mi></mrow><mo>&#8254;</mo></mover></math>: Towards a form factor program

We study systems in arbitrary space-time dimensions where matter, deformed by <math><mi>T</mi><mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mo>‾</mo></mover></math>-like irrelevant operators, is coupled to gravity in the Palatini formalism. The dynamically equivalent perspective is investigated, wherein the deformation transitions from the matter action to the gravitational one or vice versa. This alternative viewpoint leads to the emergence of Ricci-based gravity theories, thus providing a high-dimensional generalisation of the well-known equivalence between two-dimensional <math><mi>T</mi><mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mo>‾</mo></mover></math> deformations and coupling to Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. This dynamical equivalence is examined within the framework of the recently introduced Lagrangian flow equation, which notably led to the discovery of a direct link between Nambu-Goto theory and <math><mi>T</mi><mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mo>‾</mo></mover></math> in <math><mi>d</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>2</mn></math>, as well as significant insights into nonlinear electrodynamics models in <math><mi>d</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>4</mn></math>. The investigation involves explicit examples in <math><mi>d</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>4</mn></math> dimensions; it builds upon earlier research concerning the metric interpretation of <math><mi>T</mi><mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mo>‾</mo></mover></math>-like perturbations, incorporates and extends recent findings in the cosmology-related literature associated to the concept of reframing. We focus on scenarios where the resulting modified gravity theories manifest as Born-Infeld and Starobinsky types.

Italy

Tommaso Morone

United States

Roberto Tateo

Gravity and Flows in Higher Dimensions

In this paper, we propose a new representation of the minimal form factors in integrable quantum field theories. These are solutions of the two-particle form factor equations, which have no poles on the physical sheet. Their expression constitutes the starting point for deriving higher particle form factors and, from these, the correlation functions of the theory. As such, minimal form factors are essential elements in the analysis of integrable quantum field theories. The proposed new representation arises from our recent study of form factors in <math><mi>T</mi><mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mo>‾</mo></mover></math>-perturbed theories, where we showed that the minimal form factors decompose into elementary building blocks. Here, focusing on the paradigmatic sinh-Gordon model, we explicitly express the standard integral representation of the minimal form factor as a combination of infinitely many elementary terms, each representing the minimal form factor of a generalised <math><mi>T</mi><mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mo>‾</mo></mover></math> perturbation of the free fermion. Our results can be readily extended to other integrable quantum field theories and open various relevant questions and discussions, from the efficiency of numerical methods in evaluating correlation functions to the foundational question of what constitutes a “reasonable” choice for the minimal form factor.

Sweden

István M. Szécsényi

On the representation of minimal form factors in integrable quantum field theory

In this work we present analytical and numerical evidence that classical integrable models possessing infinitely many degrees of freedom unexpectedly exhibit some features that are typical of chaotic systems. By studying how the conserved charges change under a small deformation of the initial conditions, we conclude that the inverse scattering map is responsible for the presence of these features, in spite of the system being integrable. We investigate this phenomenon in the explicit examples of the Korteweg–de Vries equation and the sine-Gordon model and further provide general arguments supporting this statement.

Fedor K. Popov

Israel

Jacob Sonnenschein

Deterministic chaos vs integrable models

In two recent papers [1, 2] we have proposed a program of study which allows us to compute the correlation functions of local and semi-local fields in generalised   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$ -deformed integrable quantum field theories. This new program, based on the construction of form factors, opens many avenues for future study, one of which we address in this paper: computing entanglement measures employing branch point twist fields. Indeed, over the past 15 years, this has become one the leading methods for the computation of entanglement measures, both in conformal field theory and integrable quantum field theory. Thus the generalisation of this program to   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$ -perturbed theories offers a promising new tool for the study of entanglement measures in the presence of irrelevant perturbations. In this paper, we show that the natural two-particle form factor solution for branch point twist fields in replica theories with diagonal scattering admits a simple generalisation to a solution for   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$ -perturbed theories. Starting with this solution, some of the known properties of entanglement measures in massive integrable quantum field theories can be generalised to the perturbed models. We show this by focusing on the Ising field theory. During the completion of this paper, we became aware of the recent publication [3] where the same problem has been addressed.

Olalla Castro-Alvaredo

Entanglement entropy from form factors in   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$ -deformed integrable quantum field theories

In this study, we introduce and investigate a family of quantum mechanical models in 0 + 1 dimensions, known as generalized Born quantum oscillators. These models represent a one-parameter deformation of a specific system obtained by reducing the Nambu-Goto theory to 0 + 1 dimensions. Despite these systems showing significant similarities with   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$ -type perturbations of two-dimensional relativistic models, our analysis reveals their potential as interesting regularizations of the Berry-Keating theory. We quantize these models using the Weyl quantization scheme up to very high orders in ħ. By examining a specific scaling limit, we observe an intriguing connection between the generalized Born quantum oscillators and the Riemann-Siegel θ function.

Francesco Giordano

The generalized Born oscillator and the Berry-Keating Hamiltonian

The study of   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$ -perturbed quantum field theories is an active area of research with deep connections to fundamental aspects of the scattering theory of integrable quantum field theories, generalised Gibbs ensembles, and string theory. Many features of these theories, such as the peculiar behaviour of their ground state energy and the form of their scattering matrices, have been studied in the literature. However, so far, very few studies have approached these theories from the viewpoint of the form factor program. From the perspective of scattering theory, the effects of a   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$  perturbation (and higher spin versions thereof) is encoded in a universal deformation of the two-body scattering matrix by a CDD factor. It is then natural to ask how these perturbations influence the form factor equations and, more generally, the form factor program. In this paper, we address this question for free theories, although some of our results extend more generally. We show that the form factor equations admit general solutions and how these can help us study the distinct behaviour of correlation functions at short distances in theories perturbed by irrelevant operators.

Form factors and correlation functions of   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$ -deformed integrable quantum field theories

We study solvable deformations of two-dimensional quantum field theories driven by a bilinear operator constructed from a pair of conserved U(1) currents J  a . We propose a quantum formulation of these deformations, based on the gauging of the corresponding symmetries in a path integral. This formalism leads to an exact dressing of the S-matrix of the system, similarly as what happens in the case of a   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$  deformation. For conformal theories the deformations under study are expected to be exactly marginal. Still, a peculiar situation might arise when the conserved currents J  a  are not well-defined local operators in the original theory. A simple example of this kind of system is provided by rotation currents in a theory of multiple free, massless, non-compact bosons. We verify that, somewhat unexpectedly, such a theory is indeed still conformal after deformation and that it coincides with a TsT transformation of the original system. We then extend our formalism to the case in which the conserved currents are non-Abelian and point out its connection with Deformed T-dual Models and homogeneous Yang-Baxter deformations. In this case as well the deformation is based on a gauging of the symmetries involved and it turns out to be non-trivial only if the symmetry group admits a non-trivial central extension. Finally we apply what we learned by relating the   <math> <mi>T</mi> <mover> <mi>T</mi> <mo>¯</mo> </mover> </math>  $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$  deformation to the central extension of the two-dimensional Poincaré algebra.