| Title | Non-unitary multicriticality and PT symmetry breaking |
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| Speaker | Máté Lencsés (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest) |
| Date&time |
📅 Tuesday, May 7 🕓 11.00 (Rome) |
| Location | room 138 (SISSA, via Bonomea) |
| Abstract | In this seminar, I will present our recent results on the multicritical generalization of the Yang-Lee edge singularity and non-unitary renormalization group flows. As an example, I will show that by perturbing the tricritical Ising model with imaginary magnetic fields one can find a critical Yang-Lee line in the space of couplings. As in the unitary case, the critical line ends at the tricritical point, that we call tricritical Yang-Lee model. The critical line separates between PT symmetric and broken phases, while going around the tricritical point without crossing it, the PT symmetry gets broken non-critically, i.e. without the closure of the gap. Analogously to the unitary multicritical series, we propose massless flows between nonunitary multicritical points and a natural Ginzburg-Landau description. |
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