Asymptotic scattering and duality in the one-dimensional three-state quantum Potts model on a lattice

Abstract

We determine numerically the single-particle and the two-particle spectrum of the three-state quantum Potts model on a lattice by using the density matrix renormalization group method, and extract information on the asymptotic (small momentum) S -matrix of the quasiparticles. The low energy part of the finite size spectrum can be understood in terms of a simple effective model introduced in a previous work, and is consistent with an asymptotic S -matrix of an exchange form below a momentum scale p *. This scale appears to vanish faster than the Compton scale, mc , as one approaches the critical point, suggesting that a dangerously irrelevant operator may be responsible for the behaviour observed on the lattice.