Wilson-Like Real-Space Renormalization Group and Low-Energy Effective Spectrum of the XXZ Chain in the Critical Regime

Abstract

We present a novel real-space renormalization group (RG) for the one-dimensional XXZ model in the critical regime, reconsidering the role of the cutoff parameter in Wilson’s RG for the Kondo impurity problem. We then demonstrate the RG calculation for the XXZ chain with the free boundary. Comparing the hierarchical structure of the obtained low-energy spectrum with the Bethe ansatz result, we find that the proper scaling dimension is reproduced as a fixed point of the RG transformation.