Toward a 3d Ising model with a weakly-coupled string theory dual

It has long been expected that the 3d Ising model can be thought of as a string theory, where one interprets the domain walls that separate up spins from down spins as two-dimensional string worldsheets. The usual Ising Hamiltonian measures the area of these domain walls. This theory has string...

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Main Author: Nabil Iqbal, John McGreevy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2020-08-01
Series:SciPost Physics
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.9.2.019