Theta-term in Russian Doll Model: phase structure, quantum metric and BPS multifractality
hep-th, cond-mat.dis-nn, cond-mat.stat-mech, quant-ph
Submitted: 2025-10-23
Updated: 2026-03-17
Comments: 52 pages, to be published in JHEP
Journal ref: J. High Energ. Phys. 2026, 2 (2026)
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We investigate the phase structure of the deterministic and disordered versions of the Russian Doll Model (RDM), which is a generalization of Richardson model of superconductivity in a finite system
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Abstract
We investigate the phase structure of the deterministic and disordered versions of the Russian Doll Model (RDM), which is a generalization of Richardson model of superconductivity in a finite system with time-reversal symmetry breaking parameter θ. It is one of the simplest examples of the cyclic RG where N plays the role of the RG time. The deterministic model is integrable and shares the same Bethe Ansatz (BA) equations with the inhomogeneous twisted XXX spin chain. We analyze the quantum metric, the Berry curvature, and the fractal dimension in the sector with a single Cooper pair. A rich phase structure in the (θ,γ) parameter plane is found, where γ N quantifies the hopping term. For the deterministic RDM we clearly identify the extended domain of non-ergodic multifractal phase on the (θ,γ) parameter plane supporting the reentrance transitions between the localized, ergodic, and multifractal phases. We find the pattern of phase transitions in the global charge Q(θ,γ), which arises from the BA equation. In particular, in the multifractal phase in the deterministic model Q(γ) exhibits the analogue of "charge concentration" and fortuity phenomena discussed in the context of black hole microstates at finite N. The BA equations in RDM exactly coincide with the equations defining the ground states in the theory on the worldvolume of the vortex strings in N F=2N C N =2 SQCD at a strong coupling point 1 over g YM squared=0 with identification θ RDM= θ 4D-π. We conjecture that the Hamiltonian of the RDM model describes the mixing in particular 2d-4d BPS sector of the Hilbert space. Our findings provide an example of the BPS multifractality regime for the probe operator in the sector of Hilbert space, and we comment on the possible application to dense QCD with θ term.
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