Seminars

Duality and Thermal Deformation in the Tricritical Ising Model

by Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA)

Europe/Rome
Aula Magna

Aula Magna

Description

The thermal deformation of the 2D Tricritical Ising Model gives rise to an exact scattering theory with seven massive excitations based on the exceptional $E_7$ Lie algebra. The high and low temperature phases of this model are related by duality. We will discuss the peculiar features of the self-duality of this model and the possibility to compute exactly the matrix elements (Form Factors) of local and non-local magnetization operators.  We employ these Form Factors to compute the exact dynamical structure factors of the theory, a set of quantities with a rich spectroscopy which may be directly tested in future inelastic neutron or Raman scattering experiments.