Scaling at Chiral Clock Criticality via Entanglement Renormalization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19876v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:00:22 GMT
• Title: Scaling at Chiral Clock Criticality via Entanglement Renormalization
• Abstract summary: We employ the Multiscale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA) network to investigate the $mathbbZ_3$ chiral clock model.<n>We find a set of effective scaling data that smoothly varies starting from the Potts data as the chiral parameter is increased.<n>Our findings demonstrate MERA's effectiveness in capturing the complex low-energy physics of the chiral clock model.
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• Abstract: We employ the Multiscale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA) tensor network to investigate a critical line of continuous quantum phase transitions of the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ chiral clock model. This critical line is believed to be described by a slow renormalization group flow from the 3-state Potts fixed point to another fixed point that features anisotropic scaling of space and time. We use the variational principle to construct a MERA representation of the model's ground state, from which we obtain the ground state energy and the set of scaling operators and their scaling dimensions. These scaling dimensions determine the critical exponents of the model, and we study these critical exponents and other scaling data as a function of the model's chiral parameter. We find a set of effective scaling data that smoothly varies starting from the Potts data as the chiral parameter is increased. Within the context of our approach, we discuss how this result may nevertheless be consistent with the two fixed point hypothesis provided the renormalization group flow is sufficiently slow. Our findings demonstrate MERA's effectiveness in capturing the complex low-energy physics of the chiral clock model and in extracting field theory data for an anisotropic continuum theory.

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