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Energy level distribution of perturbed conformal field theories

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2010/07/P07013

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integrable quantum field theory; symmetries of integrable models; conformal field theory (theory); connections between chaos and statistical physics

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  1. ESF
  2. MIUR [2007JHLPEZ]
  3. US DOE [DE-AC02-98 CH 10886]

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We study the energy level spacing of perturbed conformal minimal models in finite volume, considering perturbations of such models that are massive but not necessarily integrable. We compute their spectrum using a renormalization group improved truncated conformal spectrum approach. With this method we are able to study systems where more than 40 000 states are kept and where we determine the energies of the lowest several thousand eigenstates with high accuracy. We find, as expected, that the level spacing statistics of integrable perturbed minimal models are Poissonian while the statistics of non-integrable perturbations are GOE-like. However, by varying the system size (and so controlling the positioning of the theory between its IR and UV limits) one can induce crossovers between the two statistical distributions.

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