Physics Asked by M111 on December 27, 2020
In Philippe Di Francesco’s book on Conformal Field Theory in section 11.2.3 on the Infinite Strip, the one point function of a primary operator (with scaling dimension $Delta$) is calculated by considering a conformal mapping from the upper half plane.
For an infintie strip of width L this is found to be:
$$ langle Phi (w,bar{w}) rangle_{strip} = left(frac{2iL}{pi} right)^{Delta} frac{1}{[sin(pi v /L)]^{Delta}} $$
With $w = u + iv$ and $u$ being the longitudinal coordinate and $v$ the transverse. In the limit $v << L$ we have
$$langle Phi (v) rangle_{strip} propto frac{1}{v^Delta} [1 + frac{1}{6}pi^2 Delta (v/L)^2 + … ] $$
The book then states that this is compatible with the more general result of Fisher and de Gennes obtained through a scaling analysis in dimension $d$:
$$langle Phi (v) rangle_{strip} sim frac{1}{v^Delta} [1 + const.(v/L)^d + … ] $$
My question is what is the derivation of this general result. The only Fisher and de Gennes paper that I was able to find was this paper from 1978 written in French. I am unable to understand the text and the equations there don’t appear to be very relevant. I would be grateful if someone could provide a detailed derivation of this general result.
I believe Fisher and de Gennes in the paper you link only conjecture the result (and only explicitly for d = 3). See below:
I'm not sure one can give a general proof. Even some more recent papers, such as this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00254 still state the Fisher-de Gennes scaling as an ansatz. Although, like in the proof you gave for d = 2, maybe one can use some universal form of the one-point function?
Answered by Ryan Thorngren on December 27, 2020
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