Scaling Dimensions and Two-Point Amplitudes from Operator Covariance Matrices
Abstract
The long distance behavior of two-point functions of critical lattice statistical mechanics models depend on detailed information of the underlying quantum field theory. Yet these universal properties can be difficult to extract because generic lattice operators couple to the infinite hierarchy of continuum scaling operators with unknown coefficients. Recently in Physical Review E 114, 024146 (2026), one approach to disentangle some of this information was proposed using the eigen-decomposition of the operator covariance matrix constructed from cross correlations of a finite set of Nℓ lattice operators. In this work we analyze this method in detail. We provide an explicit proof that under the assumption of scale invariance the leading decay of the eigenvalues are controlled by the smallest Nℓ scaling dimensions, even after taking irrelevant perturbations into account. Based on this understanding, we propose a new method by which the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix can be used to construct the amplitudes of the continuum two-point correlation functions. This allows for a complete determination of the structure of the continuum two-point functions from the lattice covariance matrix. We demonstrate our ideas both on synthetic data sets (drawn from the scaling hypothesis) and numerically exact data for the two dimensional Ising model.
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BibTeX
@misc{chen2026scaling,
title = {{Scaling Dimensions and Two-Point Amplitudes from Operator Covariance Matrices}},
author = {You-Chiuan Chen and Ribhu K. Kaul},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.24943},
eprint = {2610.24943},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24943},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Scaling Dimensions and Two-Point Amplitudes from Operator Covariance Matrices
AU - You-Chiuan Chen
AU - Ribhu K. Kaul
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.24943
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24943
AB - The long distance behavior of two-point functions of critical lattice statistical mechanics models depend on detailed information of the underlying quantum field theory. Yet these universal properties can be difficult to extract because generic lattice operators couple to the infinite hierarchy of continuum scaling operators with unknown coefficients. Recently in Physical Review E 114, 024146 (2026), one approach to disentangle some of this information was proposed using the eigen-decomposition of the operator covariance matrix constructed from cross correlations of a finite set of N_ℓ lattice operators. In this work we analyze this method in detail. We provide an explicit proof that under the assumption of scale invariance the leading decay of the eigenvalues are controlled by the smallest N_ℓ scaling dimensions, even after taking irrelevant perturbations into account. Based on this understanding, we propose a new method by which the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix can be used to construct the amplitudes of the continuum two-point correlation functions. This allows for a complete determination of the structure of the continuum two-point functions from the lattice covariance matrix. We demonstrate our ideas both on synthetic data sets (drawn from the scaling hypothesis) and numerically exact data for the two dimensional Ising model.
ER -