Real-time Scattering in φ^4 Theory using Matrix Product States

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15697v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:55:00 GMT
• Title: Real-time Scattering in φ^4 Theory using Matrix Product States
• Authors: Bahaa Al Sayegh, Wissam Chemissany,
• Abstract summary: We investigate the critical behavior and real-time scattering dynamics of the interacting $4$ quantum field theory in $(1+1)$ dimensions.<n>A finite-entanglement scaling analysis at $= 0.8$ bounds the critical mass-squared to $_c2 in [-0.3190,-0.3185]$ and provides a quantitative map of the symmetric, near-critical, weakly broken, and deeply broken regimes.
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• Abstract: We investigate the critical behavior and real-time scattering dynamics of the interacting $φ^4$ quantum field theory in $(1+1)$ dimensions using uniform matrix product states and the time-dependent variational principle. A finite-entanglement scaling analysis at $λ= 0.8$ bounds the critical mass-squared to $μ_c^2 \in [-0.3190,-0.3185]$ and provides a quantitative map of the symmetric, near-critical, weakly broken, and deeply broken regimes. Using these ground states as asymptotic vacua, we simulate two-particle collisions in a sandwich geometry and extract the elastic scattering probability $P_{11\to 11}(E)$ and Wigner time delay $Δt(E)$ following the prescription of Jha et al. [Phys. Rev. Research 7, 023266 (2025)]. We find strongly inelastic scattering in the symmetric phase ($P_{11\to 11} \simeq 0.63$, $Δt \simeq -180$ for $μ^2 = 0.2$), almost perfectly elastic collisions in the spontaneously broken phase ($P_{11\to 11} \simeq 0.998$, $Δt \simeq -270$ for $μ^2=-0.2$ and $P_{11\to 11} \simeq 1$, $Δt \simeq -177.781$ for $μ^2=-0.5$), and a breakdown of the sandwich evolution precisely at the critical coupling, which provides a dynamical signature of the quantum critical point. These results demonstrate that TDVP-based uniform matrix product states can probe nonperturbative scattering and critical dynamics in lattice $φ^4$ theory with controlled entanglement truncation.

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