Fuzzy Sphere Research Articles

Conformal operator content of the Wilson-Fisher transition on fuzzy sphere bilayers

Conformal operator content of the Wilson-Fisher transition on fuzzy sphere bilayers

The $g$-function and defect changing operators from wavefunction overlap on a fuzzy sphere

Defects are common in physical systems with boundaries, impurities or extensive measurements. The interaction between bulk and defect can lead to rich physical phenomena. Defects in gapless phases of matter with conformal symmetry usually flow to a defect conformal field theory (dCFT). Understanding the universal properties of dCFTs is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a computational strategy applicable to a line defect in arbitrary dimensions. Our main assumption is that the defect has a UV description in terms of a local modification of the Hamiltonian so that we can compute the overlap between low-energy eigenstates of a system with or without the defect insertion. We argue that these overlaps contain a wealth of conformal data, including the gg-function, which is an RG monotonic quantity that distinguishes different dCFTs, the scaling dimensions of defect creation operators \Delta^{+0}_\alphaΔα+0 and changing operators \Delta^{+-}_\alphaΔα+− that live on the intersection of different types of line defects, and various OPE coefficients. We apply this method to the fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFTs and study the magnetic line defect of the 3D Ising CFT. Using exact diagonalization and DMRG, we report the non-perturbative results g=0.602(2),\Delta^{+0}_0=0.108(5)g=0.602(2),Δ0+0=0.108(5) and \Delta^{+-}_0=0.84(5)Δ0+−=0.84(5) for the first time. We also obtain other OPE coefficients and scaling dimensions. Our results have significant physical implications. For example, they constrain the possible occurrence of spontaneous symmetry breaking at line defects of the 3D Ising CFT. Our method can be potentially applied to various other dCFTs, such as plane defects and Wilson lines in gauge theories.

Yang-Mills field from fuzzy sphere quantum Kaluza-Klein model

Using the framework of quantum Riemannian geometry, we show that gravity on the product of spacetime and a fuzzy sphere is equivalent under minimal assumptions to gravity on spacetime, an su2-valued Yang-Mills field Aμi and a real-symmetric-matrix valued Liouville-sigma model field hij for gravity on the fuzzy sphere. Moreover, a massless real scalar field on the product appears as a tower of scalar fields on spacetime, with one for each internal integer spin l representation of SU(2), minimally coupled to Aμi and with mass depending on l and the fuzzy sphere size. For discrete values of the deformation parameter, the fuzzy spheres can be reduced to matrix algebras M2j+1(ℂ) for j any non-negative half-integer, and in this case only integer spins 0 ≤ l ≤ 2j appear in the multiplet. Thus, for j = 1 a massless field on the product appears as a massless SU(2) internal spin 0 field, a massive internal spin 1 field and a massive internal spin 2 field, in mass ratio 0, 1,3\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$ \\sqrt{3} $$\\end{document} respectively, which we conjecture could arise in connection with an approximate SU(2) flavour symmetry.

Volume Phase Transition of Thermoresponsive Microgels Scrutinized by Dynamic Light Scattering and Turbidity: Correlations Depend on Microgel Homogeneity.

Thermoresponsive microgels experience a volume phase transition triggered by temperature changes, a phenomenon often analyzed using dynamic light scattering to observe overall size alterations via the diffusion coefficient. However, local structural changes are typically assessed using more intricate and expensive techniques like small-angle neutron or X-ray scattering. In our research, we investigate the volume phase transition of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM)-based microgels by employing a combination of temperature-dependent dynamic light scattering and simpler, faster, and more efficient attenuation measurements. We utilize attenuation at a fixed wavelength as a direct measure of dispersion turbidity, linking the absolute changes in hydrodynamic radius to the absolute changes in turbidity. This approach allows us to compare "classical" PNIPAM microgels from precipitation polymerization, charged copolymer microgels from precipitation copolymerization, and core-shell microgels from seeded precipitation polymerization. Our study includes a systematic analysis and comparison of 30 different microgels. By directly comparing data from dynamic light scattering and attenuation spectroscopy, we gain insights into structural heterogeneity and deviations from the established fuzzy sphere morphology. Furthermore, we demonstrate how turbidity data can be converted to swelling curves.

SO(5) Deconfined Phase Transition under the Fuzzy-Sphere Microscope: Approximate Conformal Symmetry, Pseudo-Criticality, and Operator Spectrum

The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) is an example of phase transitions beyond the Landau symmetry-breaking paradigm that attracts wide interest. However, its nature has not been settled after decades of study. In this paper, we apply the recently proposed fuzzy-sphere regularization to study the SO(5) nonlinear sigma model with a topological Wess-Zumino-Witten term, which serves as a dual description of the DQCP with an exact SO(5) symmetry. We demonstrate that the fuzzy sphere functions as a powerful microscope, magnifying and revealing a wealth of crucial information about the DQCP, ultimately paving the way toward its final answer. In particular, through exact diagonalization, we provide clear evidence that the DQCP exhibits approximate conformal symmetry. The evidence includes the existence of a conserved SO(5) symmetry current, a stress tensor, and integer-spaced levels between conformal primaries and their descendants. Most remarkably, we identify 23 primaries and 76 conformal descendants. Furthermore, by examining the renormalization group flow of the lowest symmetry singlet as well as other primaries, we provide numerical evidence in favor of DQCP being pseudo-critical, with the approximate conformal symmetry plausibly emerging from nearby complex fixed points. The primary spectrum we compute also has important implications, including the conclusion that the SO(5) DQCP cannot describe a direct transition from the Néel to valence bond solid phase on the honeycomb lattice. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

Perfectly spherical Bloch hyper-spheres from quantum matrix geometry

Exploiting analogies between the precessing quantum spin system and the charge-monopole system, we construct Bloch hyper-spheres with exact spherical symmetries in arbitrary dimensions. Such Bloch hyper-spheres are realized as a collection of the orbits of a precessing quantum spin. The geometry of Bloch hyper-spheres is exactly equal to the quantum Nambu geometry of higher dimensional fuzzy spheres. The stabilizer group symmetry of the Bloch hyper-sphere necessarily introduces degenerate spin-coherent states, giving rise to the Wilczek-Zee geometric phase of non-Abelian monopoles associated with the hyper-sphere holonomy. The degenerate spin-coherent states induce matrix-valued quantum geometric tensors. While the minimal spin Bloch hyper-spheres exhibit similar properties in even and odd dimensions, their large spin counterparts differ qualitatively depending on the parity of the dimensions. Exact correspondences between spin-coherent states and monopole harmonics in higher dimensions are established. We also investigate density matrices described by Bloch hyper-balls and elucidate their corresponding statistical and geometric properties, such as von Neumann entropies and Bures quantum metrics.

Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of the 3D Ising transition on the fuzzy sphere

We present a numerical quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for simulating the 3D phase transition on the recently proposed fuzzy sphere [Phys. Rev. X 13, 021009 (2023)]. By introducing an additional SU(2) layer degree of freedom, we reformulate the model into a form suitable for sign-problem-free QMC simulation. From the finite-size-scaling, we show that this QMC-friendly model undergoes a quantum phase transition belonging to the 3D Ising universality class, and at the critical point we compute the scaling dimensions from the state-operator correspondence, which largely agrees with the prediction from the conformal field theory. These results pave the way to construct sign-problem-free models for QMC simulations on the fuzzy sphere, which could advance the future study on more sophisticated criticalities.

Fuzzy onionlike space as a matrix model

We propose a matrix model realization of a three-dimensional quantum space. It has an onionlike structure composed of concentric fuzzy spheres of increasing radius. The angular part of the Laplace operator is inherited from that of the fuzzy sphere. The radial part is constructed using operators that relate matrices of various sizes using the matrix harmonic expansion. As an example of this approach, we produce a numerical simulation of a scalar quantum field theory, the classical heat transfer, study the quantum-mechanical hydrogen atom, and consider some analytical aspects of the scalar field theory on this space. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

A study on fuzzy sphere and fuzzy cone

In this paper, we investigate three different methods to construct a fuzzy sphere. These methods depend on the entities available to form a fuzzy sphere. In the first method, we formulate a fuzzy sphere when the position of the center and the value of the radius are given imprecisely. In the second method, a fuzzy sphere is constructed when the diameter of a fuzzy sphere is known. In the last method, we construct a fuzzy sphere that passes through four given S-type space fuzzy points whose core points are not co-planar. Also, a rotation invariance property of a fuzzy sphere is investigated. In addition, we show that the intersection of a fuzzy sphere with a crisp plane is a fuzzy circle. In a sequel, the idea of a fuzzy cone is developed. The properties concerned with the intersection of a fuzzy cone with a crisp plane are studied sequentially. All the studies are supported with geometrical interpretations and numerical examples.Moreover, we also develop the algorithms to get the membership grade of a number(i)in the diameter form of the fuzzy sphere and(ii)in the four-point form of the fuzzy sphere.

Solving conformal defects in 3D conformal field theory using fuzzy sphere regularization

Defects in conformal field theory (CFT) are of significant theoretical and experimental importance. The presence of defects theoretically enriches the structure of the CFT, but at the same time, it makes it more challenging to study, especially in dimensions higher than two. Here, we demonstrate that the recently-developed theoretical scheme, fuzzy (non-commutative) sphere regularization, provides a powerful lens through which one can dissect the defect of 3D CFTs in a transparent way. As a notable example, we study the magnetic line defect of 3D Ising CFT and clearly demonstrate that it flows to a conformal defect fixed point. We have identified 6 low-lying defect primary operators, including the displacement operator, and accurately extract their scaling dimensions through the state-operator correspondence. Moreover, we also compute one-point bulk correlators and two-point bulk-defect correlators, which show great agreement with predictions of defect conformal symmetry, and from which we extract various bulk-defect operator product expansion coefficients. Our work demonstrates that the fuzzy sphere offers a powerful tool for exploring the rich physics in 3D defect CFTs.

Dirac operator associated to a quantum metric

We construct a canonical geometrically realised Connes spectral triple or ‘Dirac operator’ D \mathllap{/\,} from the data of a quantum metric g\in \Omega^{1}\otimes_{A}\Omega^{1} and a bimodule connection on \Omega^{1} , at the pre-Hilbert space level. Here A is a possibly noncommutative coordinate algebra, \Omega^{1} a bimodule of 1 -forms and the spinor bundle is \mathcal{S}=A\oplus\Omega^{1} . When applied to graphs or lattices, we essentially recover a previously proposed Dirac operator but now as a geometrically realised spectral triple. We also apply the construction to the fuzzy sphere and to 2\times 2 matrices with their standard quantum Riemannian geometries. We propose how D \mathllap{/\,} can be extended to an external bundle with bimodule connection.

Moving horizon estimation based on distributionally robust optimisation

This paper presents a novel moving horizon estimation approach based on distributionally robust optimisation to tackle the state estimation problem of non-linear systems with missing noise distribution information. The proposed method adopts a fuzzy set to mitigate the impact of uncertainties on state estimation. Specifically, the method derives an empirical distribution within the prediction window using a priori data and constructs a fuzzy sphere set using the Wasserstein metric with the empirical distribution as the sphere centre. This enables the estimation of the state sequence under the worst probability distribution of the fuzzy set. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a simple simulation example is conducted to compare its performance with that of traditional moving horizon estimation. The results provide evidence of the feasibility and superiority of the proposed approach.

Revisiting the density profile of the fuzzy sphere model for microgel colloids.

Common neutral polymer microgels exhibit an inhomogeneous density profile with a gradual decay that is commonly described using the fuzzy sphere model. The model is based on the idea of convolving the collapsed solid sphere profile with a Gaussian to describe inhomogeneous swelling of the microgel in a good solvent. Here we show that the corresponding density profile in real space used in several recent works - such as in super-resolution microscopy - is different from the fuzzy sphere model, and we explain how to correctly transition between reciprocal space modelling to real space. Our work aims to clarify the application of the model so that errors can be avoided in the future. Our discussion is also crucial when comparing alternative real-space models for the density profile with the established fuzzy sphere model.

3D Ising CFT and exact diagonalization on icosahedron: The power of conformal perturbation theory

We consider the transverse field Ising model in (2+1)D, putting 12 spins at the vertices of the regular icosahedron. The model is tiny by the exact diagonalization standards, and breaks rotation invariance. Yet we show that it allows a meaningful comparison to the 3D Ising CFT on \mathbb{R}× S^2ℝ×S2, by including effective perturbations of the CFT Hamiltonian with a handful of local operators. This extreme example shows the power of conformal perturbation theory in understanding finite N effects in models on regularized S^2S2. Its ideal arena of application should be the recently proposed models of fuzzy sphere regularization.

Conformal four-point correlators of the three-dimensional Ising transition via the quantum fuzzy sphere

Conformal four-point correlators of the three-dimensional Ising transition via the quantum fuzzy sphere

Computational explorations of a deformed fuzzy sphere

This work examines the deformed fuzzy sphere, as an example of a fuzzy space that can be described through a spectral triple, using computer visualizations. We first explore this geometry using an analytic expression for the eigenvalues to examine the spectral dimension and volume of the geometry. In the second part of the paper we extend the code from Glaser and Stern [J. Geom. Phys. 159, 103921 (2021)], in which the truncated sphere was visualized through localized states. This generalization allows us to examine finite spectral triples. In particular, we apply this code to the deformed fuzzy sphere as a first step in the more ambitious program of using it to examine arbitrary finite spectral triples, like those generated from random fuzzy spaces, as show in Barrett and Glaser [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 49, 245001 (2016)].

Operator Product Expansion Coefficients of the 3D Ising Criticality via Quantum Fuzzy Spheres.

Conformal field theory (CFT) plays a crucial role in the study of various critical phenomena. While much attention has been paid to the critical exponents of different universalities, which correspond to the conformal dimensions of CFT primary fields, other important and intricate data such as operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients governing the fusion of two primary fields, have remained largely unexplored, especially in dimensions higher than 2D (or equivalently, 1+1D). Motivated by the recently proposed fuzzy sphere regularization, we investigate the operator content of 3D Ising criticality from a microscopic perspective. We first outline the procedure for extracting OPE coefficients on the fuzzy sphere and then compute 13 OPE coefficients of low-lying CFT primary fields. Our results are highly accurate and in agreement with the numerical conformal bootstrap data of 3D Ising CFT. Moreover, we were able to obtain 4 OPE coefficients, including f_{T_{μν}T_{ρη}ε}, which were previously unknown, thus demonstrating the superior capabilities of our scheme. Expanding the horizon of the fuzzy sphere regularization from the state perspective to the operator perspective opens up new avenues for exploring a wealth of new physics.

Quantum geodesic flows and curvature

We study geodesics flows on curved quantum Riemannian geometries using a recent formulation in terms of bimodule connections and completely positive maps. We complete this formalism with a canonical * operation on noncommutative vector fields. We show on a classical manifold how the Ricci tensor arises naturally in our approach as a term in the convective derivative of the divergence of the geodesic velocity field and use this to propose a similar object in the noncommutative case. Examples include quantum geodesic flows on the algebra of 2 times 2 matrices, fuzzy spheres and the q-sphere.

Emergent area laws from entangled matrices

We consider a wavefunction of large N matrices supported close to an emergent classical fuzzy sphere geometry. The SU(N) Gauss law of the theory enforces correlations between the matrix degrees of freedom associated to a geometric subregion and their complement. We call this ‘Gauss law entanglement’. We show that the subregion degrees of freedom transform under a single dominant, low rank representation of SU(N). The corresponding Gauss law entanglement entropy is given by the logarithm of the dimension of this dominant representation. It is found that, after coarse-graining in momentum space, the SU(N) Gauss law entanglement entropy is proportional to the geometric area bounding the subregion. The constant of proportionality goes like the inverse of an emergent Maxwell coupling constant, reminiscent of gravitational entropy.

Fuzzy hyperspheres via confining potentials and energy cutoffs

We simplify and complete the construction of fully O(D)-equivariant fuzzy spheres , for all dimensions , initiated in Fiore and Pisacane (2018 J. Geom. Phys. 132 423–51). This is based on imposing a suitable energy cutoff on a quantum particle in subject to a confining potential well V(r) with a very sharp minimum on the sphere of radius r = 1; the cutoff and the depth of the well diverge with . As a result, the noncommutative Cartesian coordinates generate the whole algebra of observables on the Hilbert space ; applying polynomials in the to any we recover the whole . The commutators of the are proportional to the angular momentum components, as in Snyder noncommutative spaces. , as carrier space of a reducible representation of O(D), is isomorphic to the space of harmonic homogeneous polynomials of degree Λ in the Cartesian coordinates of (commutative) , which carries an irreducible representation of . Moreover, is isomorphic to . We resp. interpret , as fuzzy deformations of the space of (square integrable) functions on S d and of the associated algebra of observables, because they resp. go to as Λ diverges (with fixed). With suitable , in the same limit goes to the (algebra of functions on the) Poisson manifold ; more formally, yields a fuzzy quantization of a coadjoint orbit of that goes to the classical phase space .