It was shown recently that a PT-symmetric \(i\phi^3\) quantum field theory in \(6-\epsilon\) dimensions possesses a nontrivial fixed point. The critical behavior of this theory around the fixed point is examined and it is shown that the corresponding phase transition is related to the existence of a nontrivial solution of the gap equation. The theory is studied first in the mean-field approximation and the critical exponents are calculated. Then, it is examined beyond the mean-field approximation by using renormalization-group techniques, and the critical exponents for \(6-\epsilon\) dimensions are calculated to order \(\epsilon\). It is shown that because of its stability the PT-symmetric \(i\phi^3\) theory has a higher predictive power than the conventional \(\phi^3\) theory. A comparison of the \(i\phi^3\) model with the Lee-Yang model is given.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6207

High Energy Physics – Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

We study the spectral correspondence between a particular class of Schrodinger equations and supersymmetric quantum integrable model (QIM). The latter, a quantized version of the Ablowitz-Kaupp-Newell-Segur (AKNS) hierarchy of nonlinear equations, corresponds to the thermodynamic limit of the Perk-Schultz lattice model. By analyzing the symmetries of the ordinary differential equation (ODE) in the complex plane, it is possible to obtain important objects in the quantum integrable model in exact form, under an exact spectral correspondence. In this manuscript our main interest lies on the set of nonlocal conserved inte- grals of motion associated to the integrable system and we provide a systematic method to compute their values evaluated on the vacuum state of the quantum field theory.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2397
High Energy Physics – Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)