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Abelian Bosonization, OPEs, and the "String Scale" of Fermion Fields

Djordje Radicevic
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This paper establishes a precise mapping between lattice and continuum operators in theories of (1 + 1)D fermions. To reach the continuum regime of a lattice theory, renormalization group techniques are here supplemented by a new kind of decimation called smoothing out. Smoothing out amounts to imposing constraints that make fermion fields vary slowly in position space; in momentum space, this corresponds to introducing boundary conditions below a certain depth of the Dirac sea. This procedure necessitates the introduction of a second small parameter to describe the continuum limit. This length scale, much larger than the lattice spacing but much smaller than the macroscopic system size, controls the derivative expansions of fields, and hence plays the role of the "string scale" in quantum field theory. Smoothing out a theory of Dirac fermions on the lattice provides a transparent, fully lattice-based derivation of the operator product expansion, current algebra, and Abelian bosonization rules in the continuum. Nontrivial high-momentum effects are demonstrated in all these derivations. In particular, the radius of the compact scalar dual to the Dirac fermion is found to vary with momentum, smoothly shrinking to zero at a cutoff set by the "string scale."

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Djordje Radicevic. 2019-12-02. Abelian Bosonization, OPEs, and the "String Scale" of Fermion Fields. https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01022

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