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PT breaking and RG flows between multicritical Yang-Lee fixed points

  • Wigner Research Centre for Physics
  • International School for Advanced Studies
  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics

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Abstract

We study a novel class of Renormalization Group flows which connect multicritical versions of the two-dimensional Yang-Lee edge singularity described by the conformal minimal models M (2, 2n + 3). The absence in these models of an order parameter implies that the flows towards and between Yang-Lee edge singularities are all related to the spontaneous breaking of PT symmetry and comprise a pattern of flows in the space of PT symmetric theories consistent with the c-theorem and the counting of relevant directions. Additionally, we find that while in a part of the phase diagram the domains of unbroken and broken PT symmetry are separated by critical manifolds of class M (2, 2n + 3), other parts of the boundary between the two domains are not critical.

Original languageEnglish
Article number52
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2023
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2023

Keywords

  • Field Theories in Lower Dimensions
  • Integrable Field Theories
  • Renormalization Group
  • Scale and Conformal Symmetries

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