Emptiness formation probability and Painlev\'e V equation in the XY spin chain

Filiberto Ares; Jacopo Viti

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Emptiness formation probability and Painlev\'e V equation in the XY spin chain

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Pith's one-line read The paper proves that the emptiness formation probability in the XY spin chain is exactly described by a Painlevé V tau function.

desk verdict Solid exact result at γ=1 with a clearly labeled but load-bearing conjecture for γ≠1; the abstract overstates the case. read the letter →

arxiv 1909.01270 v2 pith:JU2ZALFW submitted 2019-09-03 cond-mat.stat-mech hep-thmath-phmath.MP

Filiberto Ares , Jacopo Viti This is my paper · ORCID

classification cond-mat.stat-mechhep-thmath-phmath.MP MSC 82B2034M5515B0581T40 PACS 75.10.Pq02.30.Ik05.50.+q

keywords EmptinessformationprobabilityXYspinchainPainlevéVequationToeplitzdeterminantFisher-Hartwigsingularitydouble-scalinglimitirregularconformalblockstaufunction

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The reading

The paper gives a complete large-$L$ description of the probability of finding $L$ consecutive down spins in the ground state of the XY spin chain, including the crossover between the critical lines and the gapped phase. Its central claim is that, in the double-scaling limit $L\to\infty$ with the field approaching $h=\pm1$, the logarithm of this probability is an explicit function of the single scaling variable $x=2L\log|h|/\gamma$ built from a tau function of a Painlevé V equation. On the Ising line $\gamma=1$ the formula follows from a known theorem on Toeplitz determinants; the paper extends it to all nonzero anisotropy through a Möbius-invariance conjecture and tests both against lattice numerics. If the claim holds, one exact formula replaces two separate asymptotic regimes and connects the emptiness formation probability to irregular conformal blocks of a central-charge-one CFT.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the tau function $\tau(x)$ of the Painlevé V equation, defined by the relation $\zeta(x)=x\frac{d}{dx}\log\tau(x)+(\theta_0-\theta_*)x+\theta_0^2-\theta_t^2-2\theta_0\theta_*$. For the XY chain it is evaluated at $x=2L\log|h|/\gamma$ with parameters $\theta_0=0$, $\theta_t=-1/4$, $\theta_*\to 0$. The interpolation theorem in [30] supplies the smooth passage between Szegő asymptotics for a regular Toeplitz symbol and Fisher-Hartwig asymptotics when a jump singularity emerges. The Möbius transformation in the parameter plane, which keeps $(h^2-1)/\gamma^2$ invariant, is the mechanism that extends the Ising-line exact result to all anisotropies by mapping a general point to a point on the Ising line. The irregular conformal block expansion of the tau function then provides the explicit power series around $x=0$ used for comparison with numerics.

What would settle it

Take a fixed anisotropy $\gamma\neq1$ (for example $\gamma=1/2$), compute the EFP numerically for several $L$ and $h$ with $x=2L\log|h|/\gamma$ fixed, and subtract the known terms $A(h,\gamma)L+E[V]$ and constants. If the remainder is not exactly $\log\tau(x/\gamma)$ as $L$ grows, or if data for $\gamma=1/2$ and $\gamma=1$ fail to collapse onto the same curve at fixed $x/\gamma$, the Möbius conjecture (45) is false.

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Core claim

The emptiness formation probability in the XY chain is the determinant of a Toeplitz matrix whose symbol develops a Fisher-Hartwig singularity exactly at the critical field. Using an interpolation theorem for such determinants in the regime where two branch points collide, the paper shows that near $h=-1$ (and similarly near $h=1$) the logarithm satisfies $\log P(L,h,\gamma)=A(h,\gamma)L-\frac{1}{16}\log(2L\log|h|/\gamma)+\log\tau(2L\log|h|/\gamma)+$ constant terms, where $\tau$ is the tau function of the Painlevé V equation with parameters $\alpha=0$, $\beta=1/4$. The same interpolation describes the transitions from the off-critical regions $\Sigma_-$ and $\Sigma_0$ to the critical lines $\Omega_-$ and $\Omega_+$, and the free-fermion line $\gamma=0$ is recovered as a separate Painlevé V tau function $\tau_0(Lk_F)$. The authors state the result as exact for $\gamma=1$ and, under a Möbius-invariance conjecture that they verify numerically, for every nonzero $\gamma$.

Load-bearing premise

The full formula for $\gamma\neq1$ rests on the unproved conjecture, eqs. (45) and (51), that after subtracting the smooth factor the emptiness formation probability is invariant under the Möbius flow in the $(\gamma,h)$ plane with fixed $(h^2-1)/\gamma^2$; if that invariance fails, only the Ising line $\gamma=1$ is exact.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

At $\gamma=1$ the interpolation formula is a theorem, giving the complete crossover from exponential decay away from criticality to the $L^{-1/16}$ prefactor at $h=-1$.
For every nonzero $\gamma$, the same Painlevé V tau function describes both the $\Sigma_-\to\Omega_-$ and $\Sigma_0\to\Omega_+$ transitions, making the crossover a function of $x/\gamma$ alone.
The power series expansion supplies explicit coefficients for the EFP near the critical point, and the irregular-block representation connects those coefficients to a central-charge-one conformal field theory.
In the XX limit $\gamma=0$ the double-scaling EFP is the Painlevé V tau function $\tau_0(Lk_F)$ with all parameters zero, recovering the Gaussian decay and the Widom asymptotics.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same emergent Fisher-Hartwig mechanism suggests that full counting statistics and symmetry-resolved entropies of the XY chain should show the same Painlevé V crossover; the paper mentions these as natural next targets but does not derive them.
If the Möbius invariance were proven, the EFP would become an invariant of the $\gamma$-flow in parameter space, and the same invariance might extend to other observables whose Toeplitz symbols obey the transformation.
The $\alpha\to0$ limit inside the irregular-block series is taken formally; a rigorous justification of that limit would place the small-$x$ expansion on the same footing as the theorem at $\gamma=1$.
A field-theoretic derivation in the massive Ising theory would likely reproduce $\log\tau(2L/\xi)$ and give a physical reading of the scaling variable as $L/\xi$.

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Bottom line: this is a genuinely useful paper, but read the abstract with one eye closed. The exact statement is for the Ising line γ=1; the full phase-space formulas for γ≠1 ride on a Möbius-invariance conjecture that the paper itself labels as such. The stress-test note is right about that, and the reader's conditional verdict is fair.

What is new: at γ=1 they apply Claeys–Its–Krasovsky to get the Painlevé V crossover for the EFP, and then go further by producing the α=0 expansion of the PV tau function with log terms (eq. 39). That expansion is not in the cited prior work, and the numerics in Figs. 5 and 6 are genuinely strong: points for γ=1, 1/2, √2 collapse onto the same tau-function curve, with relative differences below 10^-5 at L=3000. The free-fermion section is a re-derivation of known Gaussian asymptotics via the JMMS tau function, but it is a clean pedagogical add-on.

Soft spots, in order of real weight. First, (45)/(51) is a conjecture, not a theorem. The Möbius map (41) does not preserve finite-L Toeplitz determinants; the identity is an asymptotic universality claim. The numerics support it, and the x/γ rescaling is plausible from the branch-point collision, but there is no derivation. That is a load-bearing gap for the γ≠1 phase space. Second, the α→0 limit that yields (36) is a formal limiting procedure with log terms; it is not rigorous, and the paper says so. Third, the abstract's "exactly described" is too strong given the above. It should say "exactly at γ=1 and conjecturally for γ≠1, with strong numerical evidence." This is a fixable wording issue, not a fatal flaw.

Is the central argument sound? Yes at γ=1. The exact result follows from an external theorem, and the lattice numerics are independent checks against direct determinant computation. The citation pattern is honest; the Möbius conjecture is explicitly inspired by [46,47], and the self-citation is appropriate.

Who is this for? People working on asymptotics of Toeplitz determinants, integrable spin chains, and Painlevé connections to statistical mechanics. It deserves a serious referee—the exact part alone justifies that—but the referee should push for either a proof of the conjecture, a sharper scaling conjecture with error bounds, or a clearly separated abstract/conclusions.

Recommended verdict: revise, with the conjecture status made unambiguous. I would take it to the reading group and would cite it for the γ=1 result.

Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper studies the emptiness formation probability (EFP) in the one-dimensional XY spin chain in the thermodynamic limit. It computes the crossover between off-critical and critical large-L asymptotics as the transverse field h approaches the critical lines h = ±1, expressing the EFP in a double-scaling limit as a Painlevé V tau function. For the quantum Ising line γ = 1, the crossover formula (38) follows from the theorem of Claeys, Its and Krasovsky for Toeplitz determinants with an emergent Fisher-Hartwig singularity. For general γ ≠ 0, the paper proposes that the subtracted EFP transforms covariantly under a family of Möbius transformations in parameter space, Eqs. (45) and (51), leading to the claimed full phase-space formulas (47) and (53). The authors also derive a small-x series for the Painlevé V tau function using irregular conformal blocks with central charge c = 1, taking a formal α → 0 limit to reach the jump-only case, and they test the results against direct numerical evaluation of the Toeplitz determinants. The XX-chain case γ = 0 is treated separately through the sine-kernel Fredholm determinant and its known Painlevé V connection.

Significance. If the conjectured Möbius covariance holds, the paper gives a complete and elegant description of the EFP crossover over the whole phase space of the XY chain, unifying the previously known Szegő and Fisher-Hartwig regimes through a single Painlevé V tau function. The γ = 1 result is mathematically rigorous, resting on an established theorem, and the numerical checks in Figs. 5 and 6 are extensive and convincing: the data collapse onto the predicted tau function for several values of γ and L, with differences shrinking as L increases. The use of irregular conformal blocks to generate the small-x expansion is also a valuable and useful computation, and the paper is honest in the conclusions about the conjectural nature of the γ ≠ 1 extension.

major comments (3)

[Abstract and Section VI, Eqs. (45)–(47)] The abstract states that the crossover is 'exactly described' by a Painlevé V tau function without qualification, but for γ ≠ 1 the central formulas (47) and (53) rest entirely on the conjectured identities (45) and (51). Those identities are not determinant identities for finite L: the Möbius change of variable (41) does not preserve Fourier coefficients on the unit circle, so the conjecture is an asymptotic universality statement whose corrections are not controlled. The body and conclusions do flag the conjecture, but the abstract and the phrase 'full characterization of the EFP on the whole phase space' in the introduction overstate the rigorous status. The authors should either prove the conjecture or its needed uniform-error form, or revise the abstract and framing so that the exact statement is restricted to γ = 1 and the γ ≠ 1 formulas are presented as a numerically supported conjecture.
[Section V, Eq. (36)] The α → 0 limit leading to Eq. (36) is a formal limiting procedure: the replacement x^{1+nα} ≈ (nα log x + 1)x inside the series (34) and (31) is a term-by-term expansion that is not justified by the theorem of Ref. [30], which explicitly excludes α = 0, and there is no control of the remainder. Since the small-x expansion (39) of log τ(x) is subsequently used to evaluate the conjectured formulas in Figs. 5 and 6, the paper should state clearly that Eq. (36) is a conjectural formal series and not a proven asymptotic expansion. The numerical agreement is reassuring but does not convert the formal limit into a theorem.
[Sections IV-VI, Eq. (49) and localization theorem] For the transition from Σ0 to Ω+, the derivation of the γ = 1 formula (49) invokes the localization theorem of Ref. [25] to ignore the pre-existing Fisher-Hartwig singularity at θ = π while applying the Painlevé interpolation formula for the emerging singularity at θ = 0. The applicability conditions of the localization theorem in this double-scaling limit are not discussed in detail, and the paper does not state the required uniformity in t = -log h as L → ∞. This is less serious than the γ ≠ 1 conjecture, but it is a load-bearing step for the second crossover and should be made explicit so that the reader knows exactly what is proven and what is assumed.

minor comments (5)

[Introduction, Section I] There is a typo in 'Fredolhm determinant representation' at the end of the first paragraph; it should read 'Fredholm determinant representation'.
[Bibliography, Ref. [55]] The reference to Forrester's book lists the publisher as 'Princenton University Press'; this should be 'Princeton University Press'.
[Figures 5 and 6] The captions refer to dot-dashed, solid, dotted, and dashed curves, but the figures themselves appear to lack a visible legend; adding an explicit legend or matching line styles in the caption would improve readability.
[Section VII, Eq. (62)] The expansion (62) for log τ0(Lk_F) is stated with terms up to fourth order; the text mentions that additional terms can be obtained from Eq. (8.114) of Ref. [55], but it does not specify which terms are included in the solid curve of Fig. 8. A brief statement of the order used in the figure would be helpful.
[Conclusions, Section VIII] The concluding sentence that 'a complete derivation is still lacking' is appropriately cautious, but this caveat should also appear in the abstract, since the abstract is what most readers will rely on to judge the exactness of the main claim.

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No significant circularity: the Painlevé-V crossover is imported from an external theorem (Claeys–Its–Krasovsky), the τ-function expansion from proved conformal-block results, and the only self-citation (Möbius conjecture) is an explicitly conjectural input tested numerically, not a derived prediction.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is not circular. For the quantum Ising line γ=1, the interpolation formula (38) is a direct specialization of the theorem of Claeys, Its and Krasovsky [30], an external mathematical result with no overlap with the authors; the Painlevé V τ-function expansion is taken from the proved combinatorial representation of Gamayun–Iorgov–Lisovyy and Lisovyy–Nagoya–Roussillon [37–39], again external. The quantity s is fixed by matching the τ-function expansion to the boundary condition (25) supplied by the theorem, not by fitting the EFP; the subsequent expansion (39) therefore has no free parameters tuned to the lattice data. The numerical checks in Figs. 5–6 compare the predicted log τ(x/γ) with direct determinant evaluations of P(L,h,γ), so the agreement is an independent test, not a tautology. The extension to γ≠1 does rely on the Möbius-invariance conjecture (45)/(51), which the paper explicitly labels a conjecture and states that 'a complete derivation is still lacking.' The conjecture is motivated by the authors' earlier entanglement-entropy work [46,47], a self-citation, but it is not presented as a proven input and is not used to define away the target quantity; it is an assumption whose numerical consequences are tested against the determinant. An unproved assumption is a correctness/completeness caveat, not circularity. The free-fermion section similarly invokes the independent JMMS sine-kernel τ-function result [41] and Dyson's Fredholm determinant framework [40]. No equation is shown to reduce to its input by construction, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. The abstract's unqualified 'exactly described' may overstate the status for γ≠1 given the conjecture, but that is a precision-of-claim issue, not a circular reasoning defect.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper rests on external mathematical theorems for the Toeplitz asymptotics and the Painleve V tau expansion, plus two assumptions specific to this work: the Mobius invariance conjecture for gamma not equal to 1 and the termwise alpha to 0 limit. There are no fitted numerical parameters in the central formulas.

assumptions (5)

standard math Theorem 1.1 of Claeys-Its-Krasovsky (ref [30]) gives the interpolation formula (22) for Toeplitz determinants with an emergent Fisher-Hartwig singularity.
This external theorem is the foundation for eqs. (38) and (49) at gamma=1; it is cited rather than proved.
standard math The Painleve V tau function has the irregular conformal block expansion (31) from refs. [37-39].
Used to derive the small-x expansions (34), (36), (39) and (62). The proof is in the cited papers.
standard math The localization theorem for Toeplitz determinants (ref [25]) lets the theta=pi Fisher-Hartwig singularity be ignored in the Sigma0 to Omega+ transition.
Invoked in Section VI before eq. (49) to justify applying (22) with only the emergent theta=0 singularity.
ad hoc to paper The subtracted EFP transforms under the Mobius flow as E-(x,h,gamma)=E-(x/gamma,h',1) and E0(x,h,gamma)=E0(x/gamma,h',1), eqs. (45) and (51).
Unproved conjecture extending the gamma=1 exact result to gamma not equal to 1; without it the full phase-space claim is not established.
ad hoc to paper The alpha to 0 limit of the series (34) can be taken termwise, with x^(1+n alpha) replaced by (n alpha log x + 1)x, yielding (36).
Formal limiting procedure not rigorously justified; numerical tests support the resulting expansion (39).

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abstract

We reconsider the problem of finding $L$ consecutive down spins in the ground state of the XY chain, a quantity known as the Emptiness Formation Probability. Motivated by new developments in the asymptotics of Toeplitz determinants, we show how the crossover between the critical and off-critical behaviour of the Emptiness Formation Probability is exactly described by a $\tau$ function of a Painlev\'e V equation. Following a recent proposal, we also provide a power series expansion for the $\tau$ function in terms of irregular conformal blocks of a Conformal Field Theory with central charge $c=1$. Our results are tested against lattice numerical calculations, showing excellent agreement. We finally rediscuss the free fermion case where the Emptiness Formation Probability is characterized by a Gaussian decay for large $L$.

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**Figure 8.** Figure 8: FIG. 8: Logarithm of the EFP for the ground state of the critical XX spin chain (line Ω [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_8.png]

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: FIG. 9: The figure shows the flow in the parameter space of the XY plane associated to the M¨obius transformation (41) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_9.png]

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